McCaul Supports Naming North Korea a State Sponsor of Terrorism

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, supports President Donald J. Trump's decision to place North Korea back on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list.

Congressman McCaul: "From the beginning, I have maintained that North Korea should never have been delisted as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and I applaud this Administration for taking decisive action to return them to their appropriate position. This regime's blatant disregard for international law and basic human decency has long been on display. Recent actions, such as the public assassination of Kim Jong Un's brother using a chemical agent, and the torture and subsequent death of American citizen Otto Warmbier, are just a couple examples of this regime's increasingly unfathomable behavior.

"Further, as Kim Jong Un continues in his dangerous pursuit of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States, we must do all we can to place additional pressure on his regime to abandoned this reckless path and instead pursue a path towards peace."