US Sanctions against North Korea: Have they Worked?

[W.G.Ewald]

The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS)

The reverberations of North Korea's third and latest nuclear test conducted on 12 February 2013 can be felt across Northeast Asia, tending to suggest that North Korea's nuclear ambitions may never be deterred after all. Ever since signing of Agreed Framework between the US and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1994, until it effectively broke down in 2003, Pyongyang's nuclear defiance has continued unabated with the pattern of seemingly stringent international sanctions being unable to prevent the North Korean regime from developing a full-fledged nuclear warhead along with its means of delivery.

 

[Yusuf]

United States has been deterred by NoKo and its belligerence and its nukes. Sanctions have never worked on any country. It's not working with Iran. US sanctions didn't stop Pak or the threat of sanctions at least. It didn't work with India either post nuclear test and in fact it was taken off in a hurry and Bill Clinton visited India.

You cannot stop a determined nation. One leader said they will eat grass but will make a nuke bomb. I mean really you can't do anything about it.

 

[FalconSlayers]