State Dep’t Releases Annual Terrorism Report

And North Korea clings to it by a hair:

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight in 1987. The DPRK continued to harbor four Japanese Red Army members who participated in a jet hijacking in 1970. The Japanese government continued to seek a full accounting of the fate of the 12 Japanese nationals believed to have been abducted by DPRK state entities; five such abductees have been repatriated to Japan since 2002. As part of the Six-Party Talks process, the United States reaffirmed its intent to fulfill its commitments regarding the removal of the designation of the DPRK as a state sponsor of terrorism in parallel with the DPRK’s actions on denuclearization and in accordance with criteria set forth in U.S. law.  [U.S. Dep’t of State]

But not in parallel with North Korea actually resolving the  specific questions raised in  this GAO report  about its recent alleged sponsorship of terrorism, or its proliferation of nuclear technology to a fellow terror sponsor.

By the way, there is no rest of this report, at least as it pertains to North Korea.  That’s the entire thing.  You can examine prior-year reports here, although they’re  not much longer than this one.  The facts cited in each year’s report vary considerably, but some adjectives have clearly been sacrificed for the cause, along with the entire purpose of keeping this list in the first place.  After all, terrorizing people seems to be the most effective way to be removed from it.