The United States on Wednesday sanctioned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time, citing "notorious abuses of human rights". Those steps froze any property of the North Korean government in the United States and essentially prohibited exports of goods from the United States to North Korea. Senior US administration officials said the report was "the most comprehensive" to date of individual North Korean officials' roles in forced labor and repression. In North Korea, the leader is the subject of state-encouraged adulation and considered infallible. The sanctions, the first to target any North Koreans for rights abuses, affect property and other assets within US jurisdiction.

Source: The Star July 06, 2016 17:26 UTC