Marco Rubio Wants Sanctions on North Korean Leaders

From his perch on the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., unveiled a new round of sanctions on the North Korean leadership on Tuesday. 

Rubio teamed up with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Col., to U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Id., to bring out the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2015” (NKSPEA). Besides putting sanctions on North Korean leaders for pursuing a nuclear program, the bill would make the White House offer a strategy to counter cyber-attacks from that nation and have the State Department look at human rights abuse.
 
“While the world is distracted by other bad actors, the North Korean regime continues to flagrantly conduct  illegal arms sales, proliferate sensitive technology, expands its nuclear weapons program conduct cyberattacks, and repress the North Korean people,” Rubio said. “The North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2015 bolsters our current sanctions regime against North Korea. The United States must continue to stand against Kim Jong Un’s tyrannical regime and work to pressure North Korea's leadership to end the modern day gulags that should haunt our consciences.”