The United States is withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Following the announcement,... President Trump's national security adviser described the move as a way of sending a message to North Korea.
Experts have contrasting views on the move.
Some fear it might derail the ongoing efforts to denuclearize the regime.
Lee Ji-won brings us their take on the matter.
"I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal."
With Tuesday's announcement from the White House, the U.S. has officially withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, forged in 2015,... aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for eased economic sanctions.
President Trump said the U.S. has definitive proof Iran has been lying about its nuclear activities, adding that the Obama-era deal was too weak to fully denuclearize Iran even if it fully complied with the deal.
He warned that the highest level of economic sanctions will be imposed, and any nation that helps Iran develop nuclear weapons will also be strongly sanctioned by the U.S.
The sanctions related to Iran's energy, auto and financial sectors will be imposed after 90-day and 180-day wind-down periods.
Other signatories to the deal, who had been trying to dissuade President Trump from making this decision, expressed their regret in a statement.
Britain, Germany, France and the EU said they will continue to implement the deal,... while Iran responded by saying it could restart industrial enrichment of uranium.
But Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said he would wait a few weeks to discuss the matter with Iran's allies and other signatories to the nuclear deal first.
While the decision was widely expected, eyes are now on whether the decision will affect a possible North Korea-U.S. denuclearization deal, expected to be made at their summit in the coming weeks.
At a press conference after Tuesday's announcement, John Bolton, Trump's national security adviser, said the message to North Korea is that the President wants a real deal and that the U.S. will not tolerate inadequate deals.
Experts have mixed views on whether President Trump's decision will have an impact on what appears to be an impending denuclearization deal with Pyongyang.
And while some say it may seem to give the U.S. the upper hand, North Korea could also end up requesting more from Washington.
"It could seem like the U.S. is indirectly pressuring Pyongyang for a complete denuclearization deal, but the North could also ask the U.S. to give it a rock solid security guarantee,... so the U.S. cannot simply ditch the deal unilaterally at a later date."
But others doubt President Trump's decision to scrap the Iran deal will bother the North Koreans at all.
"I don't think it'll have a significant effect. The North Koreans never had much interest in the Iran deal. When people in the west kept suggesting that the JCPOA was a model for a future North Korean deal, they felt
