The
United States placed North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on its sanctions
blacklist Wednesday,
saying he is directly responsible for a long list of extreme human rights abuses in his country.
Placing Kim on its blacklist for the first time, the US said, is an acknowledgment that North Korea is “among the world’s most repressive countries.”
Kim and 10 other top officials named in the sanctions were behind widespread, serious abuses including killings and torture of political prisoners in the country’s system of political prison camps, US officials said.
“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,” said Adam Szubin, Acting Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Treasury said that Kim, North Korea’s “Supreme Leader,” was responsible for abuses in his roles as head of the country’s Ministry of State Security and Ministry of People’s Security.
According to officials in Washington, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security holds 80,000 to 120,000 prisoners in political prison camps where torture, execution, sexual assault, starvation, and slave labor are common.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of People’s Security overseen by Kim runs a network of police stations, detention centers and labor camps where suspects under interrogation “are systematically degraded, intimidated, and tortured,” the United States said.
saying he is directly responsible for a long list of extreme human rights abuses in his country.
Placing Kim on its blacklist for the first time, the US said, is an acknowledgment that North Korea is “among the world’s most repressive countries.”
Kim and 10 other top officials named in the sanctions were behind widespread, serious abuses including killings and torture of political prisoners in the country’s system of political prison camps, US officials said.
“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,” said Adam Szubin, Acting Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Treasury said that Kim, North Korea’s “Supreme Leader,” was responsible for abuses in his roles as head of the country’s Ministry of State Security and Ministry of People’s Security.
According to officials in Washington, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security holds 80,000 to 120,000 prisoners in political prison camps where torture, execution, sexual assault, starvation, and slave labor are common.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of People’s Security overseen by Kim runs a network of police stations, detention centers and labor camps where suspects under interrogation “are systematically degraded, intimidated, and tortured,” the United States said.
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