‘Upping the sanctions’

- trade that they say is still trickling across the North Korean border.

easily and quickly, and I am calling on China and your great very hard,” Trump said alongside Xi last Thursday.

For his part, Xi repeated his plea for the issue to be resolved through the peninsula”.

On Sunday, Trump said Xi - tions against” North Korea, but he did not provide details and China - tive measures.

Beijing fears pressuring Kim’s regime into collapse, triggering a and eliminating a strategic buffer separating China from the US military in South Korea.

It has condemned the North’s missile tests, but hopes to resolve the nuclear crisis through diplomatic means, pleading for a resumption of long- dormant