Thursday, July 7, 2016

US Sanctions N. Korean Leader Kim for 1st Time; Cites Human Rights Abuses by Worshiped Tyrant

The United States yesterday sanctioned North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un for the first time, citing "notorious abuses of human rights," in a move diplomats say will infuriate the head of the nuclear-armed country, the Euro News website reports today (July 7, 2016).

The sanctions -- the first to target any North Koreans for rights abuses -- affect property and other assets within the U.S. jurisdiction.

"Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people, including extrajudicial killings, forced labor, and torture," Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin said in a statement.

But inside North Korea, adulation for the tyrannical Kim, 32, is mandatory, and he is considered infallible.

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