
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Thursday that sanctions against North Korea must be “vigorously” enforced, during a Security Council meeting attended by the foreign ministers of Russia and China. “Enforcement of UN Security Council sanctions must continue vigorously and without fail until we realize final, fully-verified denuclearization,” Pompeo ...

White House national security adviser John Bolton dismissed an EU plan for a special payments plan to circumvent US sanctions against Iranian oil sales and pressed the SWIFT global payments messaging system to rethink dealing with Tehran. Speaking at a conference, Bolton also said the United States would be “aggressive ...