The USA exerts pressure on the aggressing country because of its nuclear program by providing new sanctions against North Korea. This package of sanctions will be the largest against Pyongyang and may negatively affect the thaw in relations between the two countries of the Korean peninsula.The new sanctions will be announced during the visit of Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka to Pyongyang at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
On the same day, an official from the DPRK, Kim Yong Chol, and the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, are meeting. This North Korean official is also a subject of sanctions. The US accuses him of flooding a South Korean warship in 2010. Then 46 sailors died.