US President Donald Trump says Washington will add more economic sanctions against North Korea, days after he threatened to “totally destroy” the country.
“We will be putting more sanctions on North Korea,” Trump said on Thursday in response to a question at a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in New York on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
Trump would make the announcement about economic penalties on Friday during a meeting New York with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, US officials said.
US allies have called for enforcing existing international sanctions as the best way to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program.
Trump warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-Uun in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States, if threatened, would “totally destroy” his country of 26 million people.
After Trump’s…