The US with South Korea and Japan cooperate to pressure of Pyongyang

News24xx.com -  The political tension between the United States and North Korea has never been extinguished. And the US saying that they would ramp up pressure on Pyongyang to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. The designation, announced on Monday, allows the United States to impose more sanctions on Pyongyang.

North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

South Korea and Japan on Tuesday, November 21 2017 welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters on Tuesday, November 21 2017 according to Kyodo news agency.

“I welcome and support (the designation) as it raises the pressure on North Korea,”

Trump’s says if their country will a sponsor of terrorism comes a week after he returned from a 12-day trip to Asia in which containing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions was a centerpiece of his discussions.

“In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil. This designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on North Korea and related persons and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also backed Trump’s decision, saying the move was in line with international efforts to bring the rogue state to its senses.

Trump, who has often criticized his predecessors’ policies toward Pyongyang, said the designation should have been made a long time ago. North Korea was put on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed all 115 people aboard. But the administration of former President George W. Bush, a Republican, removed Pyongyang in 2008 in exchange for progress in denuclearization talks.

South Korea’s spy agency said on Monday the North may conduct additional missile tests this year to improve its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States.

 

 

 

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