President Donald Trump has designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, which will trigger a new round of sanctions against the Hermit Kingdom and its dictator, Kim Jong-un.
The president told a group of reporters:
“North Korea has supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil. As we take this action today we think of Otto Warmbier and the many others affected by North Korean oppression.”
The North Korea Travel Control bill, introduced in Congress in May, seeks to cut off the foreign currency the Kim Jong-Un regime earns from American tourists.
The Trump administration is advising all U.S. nationals in North Korea to leave “immediately” as the State Department said it will soon issue a ban on American tourism to the communist nation.
Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours, who both operate in North Korea, said on July 21 that they had been told of the upcoming ban by the Swedish embassy, which acts for the U.S. as Washington has no diplomatic relations with Pyongyang. Continue reading
President Donald Trump declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive Friday as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House.
While Moon has been arguing for greater engagement with Pyongyang as the best way to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump made clear that he was in no mood to pursue diplomacy with a regime he accused of having no respect for human life. Continue reading
Global Geopolitics 