U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, promising a rapid ramp-up of Treasury sanctions against the isolated state.
"Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago," Trump declared, according to AFP, citing the death of a U.S. student who had been held in a North Korean jail and the assassination by nerve agent of the elder brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on foreign soil as reasons for the move.
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