Why Has The U.S. Not Labeled North Korea A State Sponsor Of Terror?

North Korea Sponsors Terrorism -- Weekly Standard

But not according to the State Department.

Even after a year of North Korean nuclear and missile tests, this year's State Department “Country Reports on Terrorism” makes the risible claim that North Korea is "not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight in 1987." It would appear that State's definition of "acts of terrorism" no longer includes international assassinations, threats against foreign media, or arms sales to terrorists—all of which North Korea has done during Barack Obama's presidency. Indeed, no one has refuted State's assertion more convincingly than Obama himself.

In 2005, the Illinois congressional delegation wrote to North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations to protest the abduction and probable murder of the Reverend Kim Dong-shik, a wheelchair-bound U.S. resident who lived in the Chicago suburbs until 1993, when he went to China to help North Korean child refugees.

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My Comment: There has always been a hope in the U.S. State Department that North Korea would come out of the cold .... that some political reconciliation would be reached. Labeling North Korea a state sponsored of terror would kill any possibility of such a discussion .... unfortunately .... North Korea is a state sponsor of terror, and they have no interest in changing.