Palm Beach, March 23 -- President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he had reversed his administration's decision to slap new sanctions on North Korea - a move that left officials at the Treasury Department and observers across Washington scratching their heads.

Trump delivered the news from his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, writing, "It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea. I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!"

The problem: The Treasury did not announce any new action affecting North Korea on Friday, let alone "additional large scale Sanctions." The administration on Thursday did sanction two C...