The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump will decide on whether to re-designate North Korea as a "state sponsor of terrorism" at the end of his tour of Asia next week.
 
According to AFP, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that the president said he'd make a determination at the end of the trip.
 
During his trip to Japan on Sunday, Trump said that he would make a conclusion on the matter soon.
 
The U.S. Congress introduced a law in August to press new economic and political sanctions against Iran, Russia and North Korea. 
 
One clause of that act required the U.S. State Department to declare within 90 days whether North Korea should be named a state sponsor of terrorism.
 
North Korea was designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. in 1988, in response to the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858. The designation was lifted by then President George W. Bush in 2008. 

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