The sanction that President Donald Trump put on North Korea is actually meant for countries who plan to do business with North Korea. It was on September 21, 2017 when President Trump signed an executive order targeting countries who will do trade with North Korea as an aim to isolate and de-nuclearize the regime. He was quoted saying that, “It is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal rouge regime.”
The executive order will cut off any country who will help North Korea from access to the United States financial system, freeze their assets, or both, whichever is deemed best. President Trump was also quoted saying that, “I’m very proud to tell you that, as you may have just heard moments ago, China, their central bank has told their other banks – that’s a massive banking system – to immediately stop doing business with North Korea.”