07 MAR

US sanctions North Korea over assassination of Kim Jong-nam with VX nerve agent

Published time: 7 Mar, 2018 00:43

Washington has imposed additional sanctions against Pyongyang, formally accusing it of involvement in the assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia in 2017 using a chemical warfare agent.

“The United States determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) that the Government of North Korea used the chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong Nam, in the Kuala Lumpur airport,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

Maybe unfortunate timing. The US government has formally concluded that North Korea had Kim’s bother killed with the VX nerve agent. The determination comes with automatic sanctions (but there’s not much left for the US to sanction) pic.twitter.com/Vd6BEZ9ro3

— Dave Clark (@DaveClark_AFP) March 7, 2018

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