US Sanctions Three North Korean Regime Officials

This news is not going over well with the Kim regime: 

The outlook for a second Washington-Pyongyang summit is dimming amid an escalation of diplomatic tit-for-tat, after the U.S. imposed sanctions on three ranking North Korean officials Monday. 

The U.S. Treasury Department cited “serious human rights abuse and censorship” as reasons for the sanctions on the North’s de facto No. 2 figure, Choe Ryong-hae. The two others are State Security Minister Jong Kyong-thaek and Pak Kwang-ho, director of the Workers’ Party’s propaganda department.

The decision drew a strong backlash from the North, as this is the first time the U.S. has imposed human rights sanctions against the regime since the leaders of the two countries met in June to discuss peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

Korea Times

You can read the rest at the link, but as expected the North Korean state controlled media is blasting this decision to sanction the three regime officials.  

I think these sanctions are just a further warning to the Kim regime that the Trump administration is losing patience with their denuclearization delay games.