Trump to decide on North Korea terror list after Asia trip 11/8/2017 12:27:29 PM   Security personnel march past Air Force One after US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived at Beijing airport AFP, November 8, 2017  - US President Donald Trump will decide whether to re-designate North Korea as a 'state sponsor of terrorism' at the end of his tour of Asia next week, the White House said Wednesday. The designation was lifted by then-president George W. Bush in 2008. Re-designation would put Pyongyang back on a formal blacklist that would incur more unilateral sanctions. 'The president said he'd make a determination at the end of the trip,' said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She spoke as Trump headed to Beijing for talks focused on the North Korea nuclear crisis after visits to US allies Japan and South Korea. Trump will head to Vietnam on Friday before visiting the Philippines from November 12-13...

Iran Feeling The Heat From Trump On Nuclear Deal US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump make their way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, en route Las Vegas, on October 4, 2017 By: Heshmat Alavi WASHINGTON, DC,  Forbes, October 6, 2017  - “Once the deal is decertified, and Congress appears to be on the brink of reapplying sanctions, that could change not only Iran’s calculus but also the European allies’ calculus,” said James Phillips, a Middle Eastern affairs expert at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation tank in an interview with CNBC. The Trump Administration is raising the tempo on decertifying Iran over the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA ),  envisaging a temporary relief of various sanctions imposed on Iran in return for a curb of this regime’s nuclear program. According to  Politico ,   Trump’s national secur...