Trump Reverses First North Korea Sanctions Since Failed Summit After One Day

Trump Reverses First North Korea Sanctions Since Failed Summit After One Day
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before their one-on-one chat during the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb. 27, 2019. Leah Millis/Reuters
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—President Donald Trump on March 22, reversed North Korea sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department just a day earlier and the White House said he was doing so because of warming relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and did not consider them necessary.

“It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large-scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” Trump tweeted from his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”