川普：美國將再次將朝鮮列入支持恐怖主義國家名單

South Korea and Japan have welcomed a Move by the United States to redesignate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism in order to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government.

South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday it sees the decision "as part of the international community's joint efforts to take North Korea to the path of denuclearization."

"It should have happened years ago," President Donald Trump said Monday from the White House, calling the Pyongyang government a "murderous regime."

The move, which will be formally announced by the State Department on Tuesday, returns North Korea to the department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Currently, the only countries on the list are Iran, Syria and Sudan.

A State Department official said the Trump administration determined Pyongyang "has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism," including assassinations on foreign soil. "These acts are in keeping with the DPRK's wider range of dangerous and malicious behavior," the official said.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said sanctions already in place against North Korea are having an effect and that there is still hope for diplomacy.

The United States put North Korea on the terror sponsor list in 1988, after North Korean agents blew up a South Korean civilian airliner, killing 115 people. But Pyongyang was removed in 2008 after they met benchmarks related to a nuclear disarmament deal.韓國和日本歡迎美國把朝鮮重新列入支持恐怖主義國家名單的決定。美國此舉是爲了向朝鮮的專制政權施加更大的金融和外交壓力。

韓國外交部星期二說，韓國將美國的行動視爲國際社會讓朝鮮走上無核化道路共同努力的一部分。

川普總統星期一在白宮說：“多年前就應該如此。”他稱平壤政府爲“謀殺政權”。

美國國務院星期二將正式宣佈把朝鮮重新列入支持恐怖主義國家名單的決定。目前只有伊朗、敘利亞和蘇丹在名單上。

一位美國國務院官員說，川普行政當局認定，平壤一再對國際恐怖主義提供支持，包括在外國進行謀殺。這位官員說，朝鮮在國際上一貫採取這類危險和惡意的行動。

蒂勒森國務卿說，目前正在對朝鮮實施的制裁開始產生效果，仍然有通過外交手段解決朝鮮問題的希望。

朝鮮炸燬一家韓國客機，造成115人喪生後，美國1988年把朝鮮列入支持恐怖主義國家名單。但是在朝鮮滿足了一項朝鮮半島非核化協議的要求後，美國把朝鮮從名單上去除。