Hours after the tweet, a senior administration official told NBCNews that the president had been referring to a not-yet-announced major new round of sanctions.
President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walk in the garden at the Metropole hotel in Hanoi on Feb. 28, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Jonathan Allen and Josh Lederman
"It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea," Trump wrote."I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!" "President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn't think these sanctions will be necessary," Sanders said.
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