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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
North Korea is a state sponsor of terrorism, the U.S. has concluded, marking the fifth straight year that the DPRK has found itself on the State Department’s Country Report on Terrorism.
The department published the updated list on Monday for the year 2021. Countries designated by the U.S. as state sponsors of terrorism face unilateral sanctions such as restrictions on “U.S. foreign assistance, a ban on defense exports and sales, certain controls over exports of dual use items, and miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.”