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| US Should Put North Korea Back |
| US Should Put North Korea Back on Sponsors of Terror List: Report
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-April-2015
6:42:46 AM |
| North Korea has increased its "material support" for terrorist organizations and should be placed back on America's list of nations that are state sponsors of terrorism, a report released Monday said.
The Pyongyang regime, at the time under the command of Kim Jong-il, was taken off the list in 2008 under the presidency of George W. Bush, who hoped to engage the reclusive nation in dialogue.
But according to the new report, written by North Korea expert Joshua Stanton for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), America's standards for defining a state sponsor of terror are "vague and inconsistent."
The report, titled "Arsenal of Terror," recommends that the US Congress and State Department clarify the legal standards that define state sponsorship of terrorism and consider re-listing North Korea as a sponsor.
"Since 2008, North Korea has increased its use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy, and also appears to have increased its material support for designated terrorist organizations," HRNK Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu said in a statement accompanying the report's release.
"North Korea's recent conduct poses a particular threat to human rights activists and dissidents in exile. It has also repeatedly threatened the civilian population of South Korea and other nations, including the United States," he added.
America currently lists Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba as state sponsors of terrorism, though it is expected to remove Cuba as part of a historic rapprochement with the communist island.
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