U.S., Japan, South Korea Impose New Sanctions on North Korea
TimeAPR 2023
For too long, North Korea has been skating along while facing uncoordinated sanctions that have had little impact. Pyongyang has also been avoiding more severe punishments from the UN Security Council because of objections from Russia and China. By working together, the US and its allies should inflict more pain on North Korea, which must also worry about more coordinated sanctions being on the way.
The US and its allies keep playing this cat-and-mouse game with North Korea, yet Pyongyang is already under heavy sanctions and its behavior hasn’t changed. All this does is increase tensions on the peninsula. The US must change its approach to getting the North to denuclearize if it wants different results.