Trump Unveils New North Korea Sanctions at U.N.

President Donald Trump announced new sanctions on North Korea on Thursday at the United Nations, measures intended to rein in Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.

The new executive order will target companies that do business with North Korea, which has conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests this summer, alarming world powers by demonstrating it might have developed long range, nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States mainland.

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