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US sanctions 3 N.Korean officials for suspected rights abuses

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The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on three North Korea officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing "ongoing and serious human rights abuses and censorship," the US Treasury Department said on Monday.

 

The sanctions "shine a spotlight on North Korea's reprehensible treatment of those in North Korea, and serve as a reminder of North Korea's brutal treatment of US citizen Otto Warmbier," the department said in a statement.

 

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