The U.S. has re-designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism (SSOT), President Donald Trump announced on camera at a cabinet meeting on Monday.

Trump added that the U.S. Department of the Treasury will announce further financial measures against North Korea on Tuesday, accompanying the designation. 

“Today the United States is designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism… It should have happened a long time ago, it should have happened years ago,” he said.

“In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil,”