UN Sanctions on North Korea
IR/PS Professor Stephan Haggard collaborates with Marcus Noland on a piece regarding North Korea
07/07/2009
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland,
Op-ed in the Oriental Economist
Marcus Noland, Peterson Institute for International Economics - This weekend, in violation of a series of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, North Korea once again celebrated American independence and saluted the 1972 Joint Statement on Peace and Reunification by shooting off ballistic missiles like a Roman candle. With yet another launch of a multi-stage Taepodong rocket anticipated, Stephan Haggard and I briefly summarize the history of the UN sanctions on North Korea and examine what the sanctions approach might reasonably be expected to accomplish in the piece from the current issue of the Oriental Economist linked below.
It is highly unlikely that the sanctions by themselves will have any immediate effect on North Korea's nuclear program or on the increasing threat of proliferation, though costs can be raised and proliferation can be impeded. Elimination of the North Korean nuclear weapons capability is likely to require a change in political regime in Pyongyang, however.
Op-ed in the Oriental Economist: "What To Do about North Korea: Will Sanctions Work?"
