U.S. Department of State Country Report on Terrorism

by Richardson ~ May 2nd, 2007. Filed under: America, Defectors & Refugees, Diplomacy, Engagement, Six-Party Talks, Terrorism.

The 2006 Country Report on Terrorism by the State Department is now available. This is the entire section on North Korea:

North Korea
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. In the February 13, 2007 Initial Actions Agreement, the United States agreed to “begin the process of removing the designation of the DPRK as a state-sponsor of terrorism.”

The description is notably less precise than in previous years, as noted by OneFreeKorea and the Lost Nomad. No doubt due to the “delicate” nature of ongoing negations. After North Korea does something more drastic than the current BDA-related delay to renege on the 13 February agreement and the entire process collapses, it’ll be interesting to see how State justifies re-inserting all the information that should be there, or if they will even try.

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