an asylum official with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Department of Homeland Security.

with the main focus placed on significantly restricting the countrys coal exports deemed to be a major source of its hard currency.the top official in charge of government policy coordination at the Prime Ministers Office.

and Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong-so.We have expanded the number of those subject to sanctions by adding to the list 35 entities and 36 individuals that are playing a critical role in developing weapons of mass destruction and contributing to the North Korean regimes efforts to secure foreign currency.director of the militarys general political bureau.

The company is under investigation on suspicions that it exported aluminum oxide -- a nuclear bomb ingredient -- to the North at least twice in recent years.The Workers Party and the State Affairs Commission were also added along with other entities suspected of supporting the regimes efforts to export its coal and generate earnings.

a vice chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers Party.

blacklisting scores of people and entities suspected of supporting the regimes nuclear and ballistic missile programs.Kayser called Rickford’s statements last weekend “reprehensible” and said they demonstrate “no regard whatsoever for humanity.

saying they were misconstrued and he failed to get his true meaning across.said she felt “deeply disgusted” after hearing Rickford’s comment: Seeing that video.

who has dual Israeli citizenship.addressed the pro-Hamas statements he made at an off-campus protest over the weekend in a statement to the school’s paper.