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WASHINGTON
,
Oct.
10
(
UPI
)
--
President
Barack
Obama
included
North
Korea
on
a
list
of
countries
that
are
suspected
of
human
trafficking
violations
.
The
presidential
decree
was
posted
to
the
Federal
Register
on
Monday
and
follows
a
July
U.S.
Treasury
decision
to
name
Kim
Jong
Un
a
human
-
rights
offender
.
The
blacklisting
of
North
Korea
under
the
Trafficking
Victims
Protection
Act
of
2000
is
mostly
symbolic
,
since
the
ban
would
prohibit
Washington
from
providing
non
-
humanitarian
,
non
-
trade
-
related
assistance
to
embargoed
transaction.transferownership.embargosanction
countries
.
North
Korea
is
not
a
recipient
of
any
U.S.
funding
,
according
to
Yonhap
.
Other
countries
that
have
received
the
designation
include
Equatorial
Guinea
,
Russia
,
Syria
and
Iran
.