“There are countries that are allowing, even encouraging, trade with North Korea in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Haley said she had consulted earlier Wednesday with President Trump, who now supports using trade to put pressure on North Korea. “North Korea is just a shadow of what we’ve done on Iran,” said William Newcom, who used to be the U.S. representative on the U.N. panel enforcing sanctions against North Korea. China buys garments and minerals such as iron ore from North Korea, while North Korea relies on the larger communist country for just about everything else — including most of its food and energy supplies. There is this general attitude that North Korea is not my problem.”Despite its international ostracism, North Korea continues to drum up trade deals throughout the world.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 05, 2017 23:48 UTC