Trump raises stakes in escalating North Koreans nuke crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump raised the stakes Sunday in an escalating crisis over North Korea’s nuclear threats, suggesting drastic economic measures against China and criticizing ally South Korea as he convened his national security team to consider the North’s latest provocation: its most powerful nuclear test.
North Korea claimed “perfect success” in an underground test of what it called a hydrogen bomb — potentially vastly more destructive tha