Trump says Russia is helping North Korea avoid sanctions 1/17/2018 10:38:13 PM Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Trump says Russia is not helping with North Korea WASHINGTON, CBS News, January 17, 2018   - President Donald Trump says Russia is helping North Korea get supplies and avoid international sanctions. Further, the North is closing in on being able to reach the U.S. with a long-range missile, he said in an interview with Reuters news service. 'Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,' Trump told Reuters Wednesday. 'What China is helping us with, Russia is denting. In other words, Russia is making up for some of what China is doing.' Several Trump administration officials have made this point -- this was a topic at the Vancouver summit that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cohosted. This is the first time, however, that Mr. Trump has said publicly that this is the case. Reuters reported in late December that Russian tankers had...