Sanction on North Korea to stay in place says Donald Trump

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ US President Donald Trump has said that the sanctions on North Korea will remain in place. However, he deemed it unnecessary to increase them further.

According to the accounts of White House journalists sent to media via e-mail, Trump said while addressing the media along with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House that “we want sanctions to remain in place.”

Saying the existing sanctions against the N Korea are at a “fair” level, Trump added that “I really believe something very significant is going to happen. We could always increase them, but I didn’t want to do that.”

Wu Haitao, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, said on Wednesday that sanctions against N Korea should not impact humanitarian aid to the country as per relevant Security Council resolutions.