Trump declares N. Korea sponsor of terror

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People watch a TV screen showing images of US President Donald Trump (left), and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov 21. (AP)

President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism even as his top diplomat said Washington has not given up hope of a negotiated end to the nuclear standoff with Kim Jong- Un’s regime.

Trump promised a rapid escalation of US Treasury sanctions against the North after adding its name to a terror blacklist previously led by Iran and Syria.

“Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago,” Trump said. He cited the death of a US student who had been held in a North Korean jail and the assassination by nerve agent of Kim’s elder halfbrother on foreign soil as reasons for the move.

However, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said sanctions and diplomacy could still pressure Kim into talks on nuclear disarmament. “We still hope for diplomacy,” he said, adding that punitive measures were already having a significant impact on Pyongyang’s economy. (AFP)

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