Trump calls for new U.N. sanctions against North Korea

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Mon Apr 24, 2017 | 5:38pm EDT

By Steve Holland and Ben Blanchard | WASHINGTON/BEIJING

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to impose new sanctions on North Korea as concerns mount that it may test a sixth nuclear bomb as early as Tuesday.

"The status quo in North Korea is also unacceptable," Trump told a meeting with the 15 U.N. Security Council ambassadors, including China and Russia, at the White House. "The council must be prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs."

"This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk about it or not. North Korea is a big world problem and it's a problem that we have to finally solve," he said. “People put blindfolds on for decades and now it’s time to solve the problem.”

U.S. officials have told Reuters tougher sanctions could include an oil embargo, banning North Korea's airline, intercepting cargo ships and punishing Chinese banks and other foreign doing business with Pyongyang.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN17Q06N

[TomCADem]

1. Strategic Patience, Part Deaux

In the end, Trump tried to stir the pot by threatening military action only to fall back, thankfully, to diplomacy and sanctions.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Man, it is good thing we have FF45 in the Oval Office to try something new!

He chides them, rattles the saber and goes to the UN for sanctions.....like every other President. since the end of the war.

Donnie you aren't the smartest man alive, you, you poser.

Such a disappointment to your servile lackeys...tsk, tsk.

[Sunriser13]

3. But, but, but... I thought the U.N. was supposed to be irrelevant,

and sanctions ineffective, etc.

Oops, changed his mind again... Flip-flops make me dizzy...

[dalton99a]

4. So he just made the United Nations not obsolete