Trump seeks tougher sanctions to prod North Korea into negotiations

Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With no palatable military options, U.S. President Donald Trump may ultimately have no choice but to give diplomacy a chance to end the crisis over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

For now, though, he is pursuing tougher economic sanctions, including an oil embargo, and opposed to making any concessions that might look like appeasement, insisting that more pressure on the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is needed before it is time to talk.

North Korea seems even more opposed to negotiations until it has achieved the ability to attack the continental United States with nuclear weapons.

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