North Korea: Back on the Terrorism List?

North Korea was placed on the US government’s list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1987. Its inclusion on the list was justified on the grounds of weapons sales to terrorist groups, the provision of asylum to Japanese Red Army Faction airplane hijackers, the Rangoon bombing, which killed South Korean high officials, and the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858. As Joshua Stanton documents in his superb report, Arsenal of Terror, written for the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea (full disclo

Source: Peterson Institute (PIIE)