Trump promised a rapid ramp-up of US Treasury sanctions against the pariah state, after adding its name to a terror blacklist previously led by Iran and Syria. North Korea is already under a crushing package of United States and United Nations sanctions, and Monday's terror designation will not have much immediate economic impact. "In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil," Trump said. "As we take this action today, our thoughts turn to Otto Warmbier," Trump continued, underlining the legal case for the designation. Warmbier died this year aged 22 after he was repatriated from detention in North Korea in a coma.

Source: Daily Nation November 21, 2017 03:33 UTC