You can sanction and isolate smaller economies. Larger independent economies will not only be fine if you sanction them, they grow stronger. North Korea is bei

You can sanction and isolate smaller economies. Larger independent economies will not only be fine if you sanction them, they grow stronger. North Korea is being punished for not wanting to be invaded when America wanted to invade it. South Koreans got invaded and got all the multi-nationals to exploit them... as a result, they have an economy but they spend all their money into looking like their invaders (highest cosmetic surgeries in the world, to make their facial features look western) and kill themselves because they can never become like their invaders (highest suicide rate). If NK is around in its current state when the American empire falls, SK will look to NK to connect back to their roots. I truly hope, for the sake of South Koreans, North Korea manages to live on.