The US House of Representatives has approved a request by the Department of State to put North Korea back on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, after the country was removed from it in 2008.
The lower house adopted the resolution with 394 votes in favour and only one against, weeks after Pyongyang tested a rocket engine and after multiple missile and nuclear tests by the Communist regime.
North Korea was delisted as a state sponsor of terrorism in 2008 in an attempt by former US president George W. Bush to negotiate its disarmament.
In the past, Cuba, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have featured in the list drawn up by the state department, and which now includes countries such as Sudan, Syria and Iran.
The House of Representatives also approved 398-3, a resolution condemning North Korea's efforts to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said the two resolutions are "concrete actions" to hold North Korea accountable for its actions and called former US president Barack Obama's policies towards Pyongyang a failure. EFE
