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When we last checked in, Dennis Rodman was chillaxing with his friend “Kim,” doing Sunday morning talk shows, carrying diplomatic messages, and appealing to Kim to “do him a solid” and release Kenneth Bae. It seems that Worm is now losing his patience, indicating that “Obama can’t do sh#t” but promising to make another pitch [...]
My colleague Marc Noland has recently written on this problem of the collateral damage caused by sanctions, and the way this damage can be politically manipulated. The problem came up in Iraq, and is about to resurface as the effects of recent sanctions hit North Korea (see his posts here and here; our other sanctions [...]
We have a standing interest in sanctions: when they work and when they don’t. We have followed the sanctions efforts vis-à-vis Iran in particular, as it is the only current comparator case to North Korea: a regime that thrives on posing nuclear challenges to the rest of the world. VOX has recently posted a short [...]
We follow Iran because North Korea has so few comparators; an ongoing theme is the design of sanctions and whether they work either economically or politically. The new round of sanctions on Iran are of interest for several reasons: the continuing threat by the US of secondary sanctions, particularly on financial institutions; new techniques of [...]
We have a standing interest in the political economy of sanctions, and those against Iran in particular. The Economist Intelligence Unit has a new overview of the Iran sanctions (Oil sanctions on Iran: Cracking under pressure?). The report underscores that their operation is ultimately political as much as economic, and should once again give us [...]
London calling: News reports that the BBC was contemplating initiating a broadcast service aimed at North Korea got me thinking about a Clash-themed slave to the blog post. Obviously the more outside information that reaches North Korea the better, and given the US fiscal situation, it would be surprising if RFA got a big boost. [...]
It is now clear that the debate over North Korea at the UNSC is going to be a long slog. China is digging in against any new sanctions—or any with bite—and will probably even oppose a resolution as opposed to a weaker presidential statement. In the meantime, information coming out of the launch risks the [...]
Teach a man to fish: Joongang Ilbo is reporting that “North Korea used construction equipment and materials from South Korea to aid with the latest launch of the ballistic rocket Unha-3.” The unnamed South Korean government source went on to claim that “The U.S. and South Korean intelligence authorities spotted the North using cranes, forklifts [...]
No, we are not just being opportunistic or grabbing for headlines. And no, we do not have evidence that North Korea is responsible for shipping weapons directly to Syria (see our our post on the recent DPRK-Syria agreement) , Hezbollah or Hamas, although recent interdictions–most notably in Thailand–certainly suggest that such links through Iran are [...]
We offer the following from the 11 October 2012 (we won’t bother to translate into juche-time) Minju Joson, a North Korean government newspaper, without editorial comment: The United States Raised the Curtain on a Cyber Armament Race “The United States is going into full swing on cyber armament development lately. According to news reports, the US [...]
