Donald Trump has said the US is considering stopping all trade with any country that does business with North Korea.
His announcement in a tweet could be aimed primarily at China, which is Pyongyang's only major ally and a key trading partner.
Tensions between the US and North Korea have increased after Pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb - its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation to date.
The US President has been meeting his military chiefs and when asked by reporters earlier if America would attack North Korea, he replied: "We'll see."
His defence secretary, General James Mattis, said any threat to the US, its territories or its allies by Pyongyang would be met with a "massive military response".
He said America was "not looking to the total annihilation" of the North but "we have many options to do so".
Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump has warned that appeasing the North will not work, adding: "They only understand one thing!"
He said the regime's "words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States".
He also denounced the secretive country as a "rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success".
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