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Financial sanctions could force reforms in North Korea
Josh Stanton, a stalwart blogger at One Free Korea, and Sung-Yoon Lee, an assistant professor of Korean studies at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, explain how to take down Pudgy. They are absolutely right: the North Korean people suffer not because their country is poor but because they are forced to endure murderous, socialist, kleptocratic thugs as leaders.
This follows a WaPo editorial that was itself a response to the recent United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea. We may not be able to go to war with North Korea (rather, we certainly don't want to) but it's long-past time to stop rewarding the ruling clique and tighten the screws as hard as possible. The people of North Korea won't suffer more if we do; they can't. |
Posted by: Steve White 2014-02-23 |
