What's Left to Sanction in North Korea?
North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. Can further financial punishment really change its decisions?
The Trump administration’s public response to North Korea’s latest ICBM test has been to criticize China for not doing enough to pressure its client in Pyongyang.
President Trump said China was doing “” on North Korea while “our have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade.” (Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news agency, that linkage in a commentary Monday.) Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the UN, China “must decide whether it is finally willing to” enforce existing resolutions against North Korea. Vice President Mike Pence on “China to use its “influence … to encourage North Korea to join the family of nations.” But China’s willingness to act against North Korea may be limited.
