The United States on Dec. 10 imposed new sanctions on North Korea under President Joe Biden’s administration, targeting North Korean Minister of People’s Armed Forces Ri Yong Gil and the Central Public Prosecutors Office links to human rights abuses. In a statement, the U.S. Department of Treasury said the North Korean Central Public Prosecutors Office and court system had used to prosecute and punish persons for political wrongdoing in a legal process “involving fundamentally unfair trials.” For some cases, the trials would end in sentencing the person to “notorious camps” run by the ministries in North Korea, one of which was led by Ri during his tenure when he was the social security minister. Ri was recently appointed as the Minister of People’s Armed Forces, a UN-and U.S.-designated entity. The Treasury claimed that foreigners have also been the victims of the “unfair justice system” in North Korea, citing the death …