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China-Japan-Koreas
Financial sanctions could force reforms in North Korea
2014-02-23
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

#6  Economic sanctions against a totalitarian dictator like Kim are BS ineffective. The only people ever hurt by economic sanctions are the common people. We proved this in Iraq, Iran, Libya, and now Nork. If you want to oust a regime, you have to put boots on the ground.

Economic sanctions are almost as big a crime as that which the leaders of the country are doing themselves.

Forget economic sanctions, the leaders will always find a way to get their champagne and caviar or Rolls Royce and Yacht. Stupid idea.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-02-23 23:55  

#5  And even then it is repackaged as coming from Kimmie-Boy's personal reserves.

See "Obama's Stash"...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-02-23 17:27  

#4  Whatever food supplies that are not stolen by the elite, are given to the Army. Only if the Army does not need it all do the people get any.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-02-23 15:48  

#3  Hear, hear, OE!
Posted by: Barbara   2014-02-23 13:50  

#2  When grain is given to these regimes, it goes straight to the cronies house holds. Never to the people. There should be no resources given to NKorea unless it is smuggled in directly to the people. And with each 50lb bag of wheat or rice, there should be a rifle with a full magazine in that bag of rice.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815   2014-02-23 12:42  

#1  Imagine what the Kim's palace looks like given what they found in the Ukraine.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-02-23 07:57  

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