A day after reports that the February summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down in part over North Korea's insistence that the United States remove the strategic nuclear umbrella and the dismantling of the Indian Pacific Command, according to South Korea's DongA, citing the CIA's former Korea Mission Center Chief Andrew Kim; President Trump has very rapidly rescinded his Treasury's new sanctions on the communist nation.

Just a few hours after Treasury sanctioned two shipping companies - Dalian Haibo International Freight Co Ltd. and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co. Ltd. - for using deceptive methods to circumvent international and U.S. sanctions and the U.S. commitment to implementing U.N. Security Council resolutions: