Trump Says Russia Helping North Korea Skirt Sanctions

Trump Says Russia Helping North Korea Skirt Sanctions
This photo taken on Nov. 29, 2017, and released on Nov. 30, 2017, by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows the launch of the Hwasong-15 missile which is purportedly capable of reaching all parts of the United States. AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, Jan. 17, that Russia is helping North Korea get supplies in violation of international sanctions and that Pyongyang is getting “closer every day” to being able to deliver a long-range missile to the United States.
“Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,“ Trump said during an Oval Office interview with Reuters. ”What China is helping us with, Russia is denting. In other words, Russia is making up for some of what China is doing.”