US Pres Trump puts pressure on China to cut off oil exports to Pyongyang - FT
|The Financial Times (FT) reports that the Trump administration is exerting pressure on China to cut off oil exports to North Korea, stepping up efforts to convince the North’s leader Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, and HR McMaster, a national security adviser, said the Trump administration wanted China to go beyond existing UN sanctions by cutting off supplies of crude oil to North Korea.
Tillerson noted: “The president would like to see China cut the oil off. The last time the North Koreans came to the table, it was because China cut the oil off. Three days later the North Koreans were at the table talking.”
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