U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he had an executive order ready for Trump to sign that would impose sanctions on any country that trades with Pyongyang if the United Nations does not put additional sanctions on North Korea. The draft report, prepared by the U.N.’s panel of experts on North Korea for the Security Council and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, comes as the U.S. is urging the sanctions be strengthened in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests.
The Philippines suspends trade relations with North Korea to comply with a recent United Nations Security Council resolution over its repeated missile tests.