Sanctions on North Korea: Ineffective

HE United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed seven resolutions against communist North Korea since 2006 after Pyongyan successfully build-up and imposing economic sanctions against the rogue state.

The reason for the resolutions and sanctions: North Korea’s action violates the UN agreement to limit the stockpiling mass destruction. North Korea is a UN member.

the latter half of August 2017. But

The economic sanctions or from UN arms inspection teams inspecting Pyongyang’s nuclear - ans claimed are for industrial and North Korea.

Later resolutions called for inspections and seizures on the high seas of nuclear shipments bound for Pyongyang and North transfers from North Korea’s latest resolutions—of coal exports and banning of minerals imports from North Korea.

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UN member states are required to monitor—and submit regular reports for one year effective last month—North Korean military movements and nuclear tests and buildups to the UN sanctions committee.

The latest estimates by international credit raters claim the economic sanction banning mineral some $1 billion a year or one-third of its total economic revenues.

The Asean during its summit - - cluding China. The North Korean - parts from the US and China did talk but nothing has resulted from them excepted increased military

- - additional ICBM tests over Japan

Why have the UN Security Council resolutions failed?

Because one fact stands out that encourages North Korea to act - ment agency. And the UN stands on its basic principle of noninterference in the internal affairs each respecting the other as sovereign and “equal” to each other.

The Cold War is another factor to consider before a complete understanding of the North Korea situation is achieved.

North Korea to invade the American-held South Korea after World War 2 as much as it used Mao Zedong’s China to oust US-backed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Minh’s North Vietnam to defeat

- lin’s long-range plan to expand - and China reinforced North North and South Koreans.

- munist alliance collapsed after Mao Zedong branded Stalin a “revisionist” and unfaithful to the communist cause. After - munist government and Statecontrolled economy to become -

North Korea uses covert trade methods to circumvent the UN Security Council resolutions and its sanctions. A couple of - are operating in North Korea

My reliable sources also say non-agricultural North Korea buys manufactured goods in African and Latin American countries under their foreign- registered companies and ship them to Pyongyang as imported items.

China buys goods from other countries and ships them to North Korea as exports of the countries of origin.

While China bans the registra North Koreans use the Chinese currency trading in “some of the

In daily foreign exchange to trade in different currencies hours and your gains in any of - cies can easily be electronically transferred to Pyongyang using third-party countries or private individuals as fronts.

One other sub-rosa method import vegetables and other fresh or manufactured food products from Japan’s free export zones in Hokkaido into Vladivostok North Korea regularly.

question still remains: Will the rogue North Korean regime of the grandfather almost did?

on US President Trump’s next -

Nobody has the certain an the best options but prepare for