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The actions of the North Korean government borders on genocide, if you have that level of contempt for your own people then trade sanctions are ineffective. How
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
The actions of the North Korean government borders on genocide, if you have that level of contempt for your own people then trade sanctions are ineffective. However, in the case of Iran they appear to have done what they were intended to do, the stories I've seen from Iran indicate that the trade sanctions were a large part of what brought Iran to the negotiating table. Does this tie up with what you've read/seen?
- 13thLetter 11y agoYes, it does. And to be clear, I'm not saying that sanctions were ineffective in this case: as you say, they'd be much more effective against a nation like Iran with a relatively open economy and society. However, that same factor makes most other nations much less eager to keep the sanctions, because they're losing the money they could make by trading with such a nation. So at the first chance to make a fig-leaf deal and abandon the sanctions, of course they jumped on it.