Trump will go to "Phase 2" if sanctions do not work with North Korea.

[Wizard ;x]

 

"If sanctions do not work we will have to go to the Phase 2. The Phase 2 can be a very hard thing," Trump said in a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, after meeting at the White House.

The President noted that, in order to arrive at this stage, "it would be very, very unfortunate for the world".

This morning, the US government went a step further in the pressure and the isolation of North Korea to announce which he described as "major" of economic sanctions against Pyongyang, focused on 28 27 shipping companies and ships that traded with the North Korean regime.

The complete list of countries where they have headquarters or registered these vessels or companies sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury are North Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Marshall Islands, Panama, Tanzania and Kenya.

In a meeting with journalists this morning, the Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, explained that with these sanctions are "aggressively attack all the illicit channels used by North Korea to evade sanctions, including resolute measures to prevent ships, shipping companies and other entities of the world will work for the North Korean regime"..