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Re-list North Korea as state sponsor of terrorism – Report

Pyongyang, de-listed in 2008, commits numerous actions meriting designation, report argues

A report to be released Monday argues forcefully in favor of returning North Korea the U.S. state sponsors of terror (SSOT) list.

Authored by lawyer, blogger and regime critic Joshua Stanton, Arsenal of Terror—North Korea, State Sponsor of Terrorism is published by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), who will publicly release it Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

The report argues that the North has repeatedly met the criteria for designation as state sponsor of terror, including through offenses committed after it was removed from the list in 2008. This includes a number