WASHINGTON D.C: The United States placed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on its sanctions blacklist for the first time on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), calling him directly responsible for a long list of serious human rights abuses.

US officials said Kim and 10 other top officials also blacklisted were behind widespread abuses including extrajudicial killings, forced labor and torture in the country’s system of prison camps for political detainees that has made North Korea “among the world’s most repressive countries.”

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