US sanctions 3 North Korean officials over ballistic missile tests

The US imposed sanctions Thursday on three North Korean officials in response to Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test and its weapons of mass destruction programs.

The Treasury Department designated Jon Il Ho, the chair of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), and Yu Jin and Kim Su Gil, members of the WPK Central Committee, for their “major roles in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction,” it said, referring to North Korea’s official name.