Worst is yet to come, Don tells N. Korea

PRESIDENT TRUMP issued an ominous warning to North Korea Friday, vowing to take it to “phase two” if the most recent round of sanctions prove ineffective.

Trump’s combative comments came hours after the White House enacted another set of sanctions against companies connected to the isolated Communist dictatorship.

“If the sanctions don’t work, we’ll have to go to phase two,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. “Phase two may be a very rough thing, maybe very unfortunate for the world.”

“But hopefully the sanctions will work,” Trump added.

Earlier Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, citing no evidence, said that sanctions “are beginning to have a significant impact” on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

Mnuchin announced that the Trump administration hit more than 50 vessels, shipping companies and trade businesses with sanctions meant to curb the rogue nation’s nuclear ambitions.

Trump declared in a speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it was “the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before.”

But the economic impact is unclear.

The U.S. and the United Nations have repeatedly expanded sanctions over the past year as Pyongyang ramped up its missile and nuclear tests.