Trump’s ‘down the road’ deadline to lift North Korea sanctions frustrates nations eager for trade

Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that if North Korea fails to denuclearize, the U.S. could again rally an international coalition to apply more pressure on the regime.

“There really is room for ‘Maximum Pressure 2.0,’” he said. “Should the Kim regime balk at the process of denuclearization, the Trump administration does have new sanctions that it can implement.”

He added, “I think the administration would be wise to have that game plan ready that would deal with Chinese banks, ship-to-ship transfers, foreign workers [and] all of those income-generators North Korea still has — licit and otherwise. We should be prepared to attack in the event of a collapse in these talks.”

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