North Korean Sanctions

Best korea has been slapped with the harshest round of sanctions to date:
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>both refined and crude oil will be capped at 8.5 million barrels a year, a 30% cut
>A ban on exports of textiles - Pyongyang's second-biggest export worth more than $700m a year
>measures to prohibit North Koreans from working overseas. Pyongyang heavily taxes its 93,000 citizens it sends abroad for work, and estimated the move would cut off $500m of revenue every year.
>proposed oil embargo, asset freeze and travel ban on leader Kim Jong-un were dropped from the resolution.
>90% of North Korea's reported exports are now banned
>Though toned down, the sanctions are potentially far-reaching in their ability to shave as much as $1.3 billion from North Korea's revenue.

Is starving them to death a solid plan or what?

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already had 1/3 of exports slashed before, NK can barely handle their shit without sanctions.

Kim probably won't give a shit still, more launches. Farmers gonna starve

Won't make any difference to Kim
The people will be freezing and starving

Except NK hasn't had food insecurity since the 90s.

>farmers will starve
>the people
What about their military personnel? The populace is completely helpless but could military coup stem from this?

>slapped with the harshest round of sanctions to date:

Youd hardly use sanctions that are less harsh than any previously, defeats the entire purpose.

Let the man sensationalize.

>ban 60% of X one week
>ban another 20% the next
There's no rule that says each has to be bigger than the last. I couldn't exactly make a RonPaulitshappening.jpg OP over this.

China will eventually veto though.

Do trade sanctions really matter for a country that only does a few billion in trade

Their defence budget is 7.5 billion.
Losing 1.3 billion is a pretty big hit.

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It might make starving gooks angry and attempt to overthrow fat boy.

Sanctions are dead. The Eurasia bloc will pretend to go along with it while they rebrand NK textiles as Chinese. You can't sanction a country that shares a border with their ally who happens to be one of the richest countries in the world.

>OSSO DE BOI

Do americans understand that sanctions doesn't work against societies without consumerism? I'm starting to think they don't believe that someone can live without their shit.

the US dialed back their sanction resolutions with a nod to china

did kim win?

Starving communists is the most humane thing you can do with them. got a problem with it?

GET IT? BECAUSE COMMIES DONT EAT?

That oil cap is going to hurt them somewhat since Soviet era tanks and submarines probably get shit gas mileage.

I guess you can say he won up until the point they are involved in a war in which case they won't be able to use engine powered military equipment longer than a few weeks.

>US GDP
around 18 trillion

>DPRK GDP
around 12.38 billion

fucking lol

Totally solid plan, because sanctions have done fuck-all in the past, right?

Maybe they'll eat their great leader now.

It's going to matter to the Chinese. They just as bad of actors in all this as NK. They haven't done anything because they stand to lose from a deposed Kim/united Korea.

The point of the sanctions is to get them to spend less money on their nuclear program, what people don't understand is the the Norks care less about the nuking the US and more about blackmailing them with nukes to get us to abandon South Korea so they can invade again, I just hope that the whoever is President by the time they achieve properly functioning ICBMs isn't a pussy and doesn't give in to their demands

It's a shitty situation. If the international community does nothing, North Korea makes them look like a bunch of bitches, which just emboldens other nations like Iran and the like to stir up shit and cause problems.

On the other hand, the narrative that North Korea feeds to their citizens is that they are locked in an ideological war with the US, in which the US is trying to destroy North Korea. The NK government tells their citizens the poverty they face is caused by America, and they must unite to militarize and fight America if they want a better quality of life. Sanctions on NK feed right into this narrative, deepening the anti-American sentiment in the population. Basically it creates more problems down the line.

There's no good way to the international community to respond to NK without ultimately worsening current tensions.

The way I see it, the only way to end this shit is to start some internal struggle, manufacture a rebellion, that way no one but the Kim's regime gets hurt

The worst thing about this has been Trumps empty "fire and fury" threat. Now every country on earth knows for certain that if they can get a nuke the United States won't risk fucking with them even if the president threatens to.

There's literally nothing the US can do without starting WW3, the only way a war with North Korea can happen without the worst possible scenario is if they strike first, the US striking first would drag the Chinese into it, and maybe the russians

The norks understand that the only way for them not to turn into something like Libya is to get as many nukes as they can as fast as they can. No sanctions are going to stop them.

So they're going to "shave as much as $1.3 billion from NK revenue"? Here's a USSR-era jokerelated: "Daddy, they've raised the price of vodka again, does it mean you're going to drink less? No, sweetie, it means we're going to eat less".

How do we know there isn't some secret tunnel between China and North Korea?

desperate people, will do desperate things

lol learn polisci and IR
>what is rhetoric
fucking kids should be doing homework

>they must unite to militarize and fight America if they want a better quality of life
It is not about quality of life, It is about survival, they need weapons to defend against America, or they will end like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria.