The Coast Guard is imposing conditions of entry on vessels arriving in the U.S. from North Korea, which the Coast Guard has found to not be maintaining effective antiterrorism measures by virtue of its designation by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Specifically, all commercial vessels that arrive in the U.S. on or after Sept. 2 after visiting ports in North Korea as one of their last five ports of call will have to take specified actions in foreign ports and after arriving in the U.S. More information can be found here.
The current list of countries assessed and not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures (and therefore subject to conditions of entry) is as follows: Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Madagascar, Nauru, Nigeria, North Korea, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Venezuela, Yemen.
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