North Korea Remains on Terror List

This year’s listing appears to be based primarily on past events:

Although North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight in 1987, it did in 2002 admit to kidnapping Japanese citizens.

And, even though the DPRK is a party to six international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, “Pyongyang has not taken substantial steps to cooperate in efforts to combat international terrorism,” the report says.

I wonder if anyone in our State Department read this report, or this one.