
Last Friday, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was ordering the Treasury Department to withdraw new sanctions on North Korea. But as there were no “additional large-scale sanctions” on North Korea like the ones the President claimed were currently in the works, the tweet sent his staff into a state of confusion according to a report from Bloomberg News. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Jenny Town, a research analyst at the Stimson Center and managing editor of 38 North, helps clarify what is happening in the murky waters of US-North Korea relations.