President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, returning Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear-armed pariah regime to a short blacklist of targeted US foes. North Korea is already under a wide array of United States and United Nations sanctions, and the terror designation will not have much immediate economic impact in itself. “In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil,” Trump said. US student Warmbier did this year aged only 22 after he was repatriated from detention in North Korea already in a coma. “The Treasury Department will be announcing an additional sanction — and a large one — on North Korea,” he said.

Source: The Guardian November 20, 2017 17:48 UTC