TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The US today vowed to step up economic sanctions to force North Korea to resume talks over its nuclear programme, underlining that its past efforts had failed to halt Pyongyang’s “unlawful” weapons programmes.
Briefing senators at the White House, top Trump administration officials said President Donald Trump wanted to use diplomatic measures and tighten sanctions to pressure Kim Jong-Un’s regime.
The senators earlier were ferried in a bus from the US capitol to the White House for an unusual detailed briefing from the Trump administration officials on the current situation in North Korea.
President Donald Trump himself dropped by at the briefing, which was addressed by his top national security aides — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defence Secretary James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Joe Dunford. “Past efforts have failed to halt North Korea’s unlawful weapons programmes and nuclear and ballistic missile tests.
