Donald Trump has executive order ready to sanction ANY country trading with North Korea - and other stories

I read an opinion purporting to be from inside souces that it will be enough for Kim to send a missile in the general direction of Guam while Christopher Green of AMTV is saying that America will not make a first strike but provoke North Korea into making the first move through Trump's oil embargo which he is trying to foist onto the world.

All of this seems to make some sense to me.

Meanwhile Putin and possibly the South Koreans are the only adults in the room.Japan's Abe is also being very bellicose.

With everything else that is going on my attention is spread very thin.

Pass the popcorn!

Donald Trump has executive order ready to sanction ANY country trading with North Korea

DONALD Trump has an executive order ready to impose US sanctions on any country trading with North Korea, the President’s Treasury Secretary has confirmed.

TheExpress,

7 September, 2017

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said warned that if the United Nation does not impose fresh sanctions on the rogue state America will take matters into its own hands.

According to the executive order, any country that continued to trade with North Korea will face US sanctions.

It follows the test launch of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea last week which sparked a 6.3 artificial earthquake in the region.

Speaking en route to Washington from North Dakota, Mr Mnuchin said: ”I have an executive order prepared. It's ready to go to the President. It will authorise me to stop doing trade, and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said warned that if the United Nation does not impose fresh sanctions on the rogue state America will take matters into its own hands.

According to the executive order, any country that continued to trade with North Korea will face US sanctions.

It follows the test launch of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea last week which sparked a 6.3 artificial earthquake in the region.

Speaking en route to Washington from North Dakota, Mr Mnuchin said: ”I have an executive order prepared. It's ready to go to the President. It will authorise me to stop doing trade, and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea.

“The President will consider that at the appropriate time once he gives the UN time to act.”

The US wants the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose several sanctions on the despot nation including an oil embargo, a ban on the country's exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean labourers abroad.

The Trump administration also wants the UNSC to subject Kim Jong-un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has said she wants the 15-member council to vote on the draft resolution next Monday.

But Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia warned that Monday’s vote may be "a little premature”.

It was not immediately clear if the draft resolution had the support of North Korean ally China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday that resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis was impossible with sanctions and pressure alone.

A UN resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the US, Britain, France, Russia or China to pass.

President Trump yesterday told Theresa May “now is not the time to talk” to North Korea as fears grow military action could be looming.

The White House said on Wednesday the US President and British Prime Minister had spoken on the phone about the growing threat on the Korean Peninsula.

And Mr Trump is said to have made it clear that no option, including military action, is off the table.

In a statement, the White House said: “They agreed that this latest reckless act only strengthens the world’s determination to confront the growing North Korea threat.

It added: “President Trump reiterated that now is not the time to talk to North Korea, and made clear that all options remain open to defend the United States and its allies against North Korean aggression.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said warned that if the United Nation does not impose fresh sanctions on the rogue state America will take matters into its own hands.

According to the executive order, any country that continued to trade with North Korea will face US sanctions.

It follows the test launch of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea last week which sparked a 6.3 artificial earthquake in the region.

Speaking en route to Washington from North Dakota, Mr Mnuchin said: ”I have an executive order prepared. It's ready to go to the President. It will authorise me to stop doing trade, and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea.

“The President will consider that at the appropriate time once he gives the UN time to act.”

The US wants the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose several sanctions on the despot nation including an oil embargo, a ban on the country's exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean labourers abroad.

The Trump administration also wants the UNSC to subject Kim Jong-un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has said she wants the 15-member council to vote on the draft resolution next Monday.

Images depict how tensions have escalated between North Korea and the United States. Kim Jong-Un boasted of North Korea's ability to strike any target in the US after a second ICBM test that weapons experts said on July 29 could even bring New York into range - in a potent challenge to President Donald Trump

“The two leaders resolved to continue working closely together on increasing diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, and to call on others to do the same.”

Early on Sunday morning North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb which was 10 times more powerful than North Korea’s fifth nuclear test according to a South Korean weather agency.

And reportedly five times bigger than that of Nagasaki - the nuclear bomb dropped on Japan during the Second World War.

North Korea officials claimed the device could be mounted on its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missiles - which experts have said are capable of reaching the US.

According to North Korea's state media the test was a "perfect success" and a "meaningful" step in completing the country's nuclear weapons programme.

North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was a successful detonation of an advanced hydrogen bomb

It added: ”The H-bomb test was carried out to examine and confirm the accuracy and credibility of the power control technology and internal structural design newly introduced into manufacturing the H-bomb to be placed as the payload of the ICBM.”

President Trump has responded to the test on Twitter, saying: "North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test.

"Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States....."

He added: "North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success."…..

Where is Kim Jong-un? North Korea 

leader VANISHES amid fears missile 

launchis imminent

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un has disappeared from public view for the last two weeks, triggering fears the country is preparing for yet another missile launch.

The dictator was last seen in public some two weeks and the last time he disappeared from the public eye was just before the North Korea’s most recent test firing of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The last time he was seen in public was July 30th when a celebration was held for the successful test launch of the Hwasong-14 missile which the Korean Central News Agency reported the following day.

The young North Korean leader previously disappeared for two weeks before the two test launches of Hwasong-14s.

Missile test fears have been compounded by the recent release of satellite images by 38 North that indicate that the state is preparing to launch a submarine-based ICBM using the Pukguksong-1 launch system.

ChinaSHOOTS DOWN missiles near North 

Korea border - nuclear crisis deepens

CHINA has shot down missiles near the North Korean border in a provocative show of force against Kim Jong-un’s hermit kingdom.

North Korea was sent a direct message from Beijing yesterday in an explosive military drill near the border between the two states.

China's air force carried out exercises near the peninsula, practising to defend against a "surprise attack” - presumably from their erratic neighbours.

Chinese state-run media, which effectively acts as ay propaganda wing for leader Xi Jingping’s government, said the drills took place early yesterday.

They said the provocative drills took place near the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea which separates China from the Korean peninsula....

U.S. NOW TELLING THE WORLD"CUT-OFF FUEL SUPPLIES TO NORTH KOREA OR IT'S WAR"

The United States of America is now officially telling fellow members of the United Nations the end has arrived with North Korea. The US is bluntly saying "Cut-off Oil and Fuel supplies to North Korea OR IT'S WAR."

This is the most stark, brutally blunt language ever used by the United States government and is the first time it has ever directly threatened "war."

UPDATE 10:15 AM EDT –

The Trump administration is pressing China and other members of the United Nations Security Council to cut all oil and other fuels to the country.

The effort, which senior administration officials described as a last best chance to resolve the standoff with the North using sanctions rather than military means.

The US will put this before the UN on Monday as part of the sanctions resolution they are now drafting.