However, Kim's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said North Korea could consider a hydrogen bomb test of an unprecedented scale on the Pacific Ocean, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. Trump said the new executive order on sanctions gives further authorities to target individual companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea. It "will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind", Trump said. "On notice"US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said banks doing business in North Korea would not be allowed to also operate in the United States. The United States and South Korea are technically still at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce and not a peace treaty.

Source: bd News24 September 22, 2017 01:52 UTC