Sanctions on North Korea

Inserted 1 year ago

“Targeting senior officials inside North Korea responsible for WMD and missile activities and working with South Korea and Japan are important, but it is an inadequate and symbolic response to 60+ missile tests, including 8 ICBM tests. The Biden administration should sanction Pyongyang's revenue and force Kim Jong Un to make difficult decisions about his strategic priorities.”

Senior director of Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program and a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies

02 Dec 2022 4 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 1 year ago

“Through unheard of sanctions and blockade(s) … they are trying to lead us but to give up the nuclear weapons of our own accord. But never! Let them impose sanctions for 100, nay 1000 days, or even 10 or 100 years.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

08 Sep 2022 2 3

Eric Gomez

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea went into a period of very intense economic self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent virus spread. This put the economy under significant strain, plus sanctions were in effect, yet North Korea did not come to the negotiating table, which damages the theory that sanctions will force North Korea to the negotiating table via economic pressure. At this point, the only real place sanctions could go next is secondary sanctions against entities outside of North Korea.”

Koreatimes

Director of defence policy studies at the Cato Institute

21 Jan 2022 5 3

Bruce Bennett

Inserted 2 years ago

“With North Korea, we have to remember that the most severe sanction that has been implemented was the closing of the North Korean border with China, something that Kim [Kim Jong-un] did to his country (rather than being a sanction imposed from outside).”

Koreatimes

Senior international defense analyst at the RAND Corporation

21 Jan 2022 4 2

Jeffrey Lewis

Inserted 2 years ago

“People misunderstand the purpose of sanctions. There is no evidence that sanctions have prevented the development of any nuclear or missile programs. What sanctions are intended to do is create pressure on the leadership to change its policies. Such an approach is obviously doomed with a country like North Korea, which values autarky.”

Koreatimes

Weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies

21 Jan 2022 6 2

Go Myong-hyun

Inserted 2 years ago

“The timing of the fresh sanctions appears to be the U.S. response to the North's recent missile tests, and as it covers those believed to have played their role in securing goods for missile programs, it is directly targeting North Korea's missile programs, and also sends a message to Russia and China, too. The U.S. knows that its proposal for additional U.N. sanctions will not be passed right away, given that it requires agreement from Russia and China. It is closer to the U.S. preparing for further North Korean provocations and sending a message that it will take action for action.”

Koreatimes

Research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies focusing on North Korea

13 Jan 2022 5 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“These designations convey our serious and ongoing concern about the DPRK's continued proliferation activities and those who support it. The United States will use every appropriate tool to address the DPRK's WMD and ballistic missile programs, which constitute a serious threat to international peace and security and undermine the global nonproliferation regime.”

Koreatimes

U.S. Secretary of State

12 Jan 2022 5 5

Zhang Jun

Inserted 2 years ago

“It has been always China's will that we should also address the humanitarian dimension caused by the sanctions imposed by the Security Council. The 2019 draft resolution remains on the table.”

Aljazeera

China’s UN Ambassador

01 Nov 2021 2 4

Tomas Ojea Quintana

Inserted 2 years ago

“The worsening humanitarian situation could turn into a crisis and it is coinciding with a global creeping apathy about the plight of North Korea's people. Sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council should be reviewed and eased when necessary to both facilitate humanitarian and lifesaving assistance and to enable the promotion of the right to an adequate standard of living of ordinary citizens. People's access to food is a serious concern and the most vulnerable children and elderly are at risk of starvation. North Koreans should not have to choose between the fear of hunger and the fear of COVID-19. Essential medicines and medical supplies are in short supply and prices have increased several fold as they stopped coming in from China, and humanitarian organisations have been unable to bring in medicines and other supplies.”

Reuters

U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

07 Oct 2021 10 5

Chung Eui-yong

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think that now, time is ripe for the consideration of sanctions relief [on North Korea].”

Voanews

South Korea Minister of Foreign Affairs

01 Oct 2021 4 5

Ben Wallace

Inserted 2 years ago

“HMS Richmond's deployment in the East China Sea identified ships acting in suspected breach of UN sanctions and tracked vessels which had previously not been flagged to the Enforcement Coordination Cell.”

Koreatimes

UK Secretary of State for Defence

26 Sep 2021 6 2

Harry Kazianis

Inserted 2 years ago

“The DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] knows President Moon [Moon Jae-in] wants to take one last shot at forging a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, while the North wants sanctions relief. It seems to me that due to these factors - and if the U.S. is at least willing to entertain some sort of sanctions relief - an inter-Korean summit seems inevitable.”

Koreatimes

Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest

26 Sep 2021 7 7

Shin Beom-chul

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea is following its own path of seeking more from the U.S., such as sanctions relief or the suspension of the South Korea-U.S. combined military exercises, and the missile launches were part of this basic strategy. Frankly speaking, few countries support the Korean Peninsula peace process. With North Korea and China urging the U.S. to concede more, Washington perfunctorily approves it, but it is not yet ready to ease sanctions. As there is little chance that the relevant countries will change their stances, the peace initiative is unlikely to make progress if South Korea continues to pursue it in the same fashion.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for Diplomacy and Security at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy

14 Sep 2021 5 7

Troy Stangarone

Inserted 2 years ago

“While sanctions relief may not be on the table, the inclusion of an easing on the importation of luxury goods in North Korea's demands may be revealing. It suggests that while the large-scale smuggling of items such as coal or petroleum documented by the U.N. Panel of Experts is something that the regime has been able to maintain, it has faced more significant challenges in acquiring the luxury goods that are needed to maintain the loyalty of the elite. It also suggests the potential for growing discontentment among the elite at the current situation.”

Koreatimes

Senior director of congressional affairs and trade at the Korea Economic Institute

19 Aug 2021 1 3

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're open to considering additional ways to facilitate humanitarian assistance, going forward as quickly as possible. It is... important to remember that sanctions did not create the humanitarian crisis.”

Asia

United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden

05 Aug 2021 3 4

Nabila Massrali

Inserted 3 years ago

“The primary responsibility for economic and social challenges facing vulnerable people in the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] rests with the policies of the DPRK government.”

Koreatimes

EU's spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy

07 Mar 2021 1 2

Robert Manning

Inserted 3 years ago

“In light of Kim Jong-un's accelerated efforts to improve his nuclear and ballistic missile programs, it makes no sense to lift any U.N. sanctions, and throw away leverage. In terms of North Korea's internal situation, Kim has done more harm with his self-imposed sanctions - closing borders, eliminating any cross-border travel, horrible economic mismanagement, shutting markets, bad policies, and refusing ROK [Republic of Korea - South Korea] medical help - than the U.N. sanctions have done. If he wants food aid, how about us giving him one million tons of food for each nuclear weapon he verifiably destroys?”

Koreatimes

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council

07 Mar 2021 4 4

Bruce Klingner

Inserted 3 years ago

“The fault of the abysmal condition of the North people lies squarely with the regime and not on sanctions. Blaming sanctions for the dire conditions of the North Korean people diverts attention from the real reason, which is the nature and policies of the North Korean regime. Pyongyang's socialist economic policies, prioritizing defense spending over the needs of the people, resistance to foreign assistance, unwillingness to abide by previous commitments, and its self-imposed isolation are the real culprits for the devastating economic and food situation within North Korea. North Korea has rejected offers of food and assistance from the U.S., South Korea and others. Donors have been deterred by Pyongyang's resistance to the economic reforms necessary to prevent a recurrent need for assistance. Over the years, humanitarian aid groups left North Korea because the regime put constrictions on the group or on verifying the distribution of aid. Cases of inadvertent delays are addressed by a U.N. panel.”

Koreatimes

Former CIA analyst and senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation

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“Through unheard of sanctions and blockade(s) … they are trying to lead us but to give up the nuclear weapons of our own accord. But never! Let them impose sanctions for 100, nay 1000 days, or even 10 or 100 years.”

“With North Korea, we have to remember that the most severe sanction that has been implemented was the closing of the North Korean border with China, something that Kim [Kim Jong-un] did to his country (rather than being a sanction imposed from outside).”

“It has been always China's will that we should also address the humanitarian dimension caused by the sanctions imposed by the Security Council. The 2019 draft resolution remains on the table.”

“I think that now, time is ripe for the consideration of sanctions relief [on North Korea].”

“HMS Richmond's deployment in the East China Sea identified ships acting in suspected breach of UN sanctions and tracked vessels which had previously not been flagged to the Enforcement Coordination Cell.”

“We're open to considering additional ways to facilitate humanitarian assistance, going forward as quickly as possible. It is... important to remember that sanctions did not create the humanitarian crisis.”

“The primary responsibility for economic and social challenges facing vulnerable people in the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] rests with the policies of the DPRK government.”

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