President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will designate North Korea a state sponsor of terror, a move aimed at increasing pressure on the regime.
“Today the United States is designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terror,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, adding that it “should’ve happened a long time ago, years ago.”
The president cited nuclear threats, as well as repeated support of international terrorism, as reasons for the designation.
The move, the president said, “supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime that you’ve all been reading about, and in some cases writing about.”
Trump also said the Treasury Department will soon announce additional, “very large” sanctions on Pyongyang.
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