New report urges aggressive North Korean sanctions

Wendell Minnick, shephardmedia.com

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A new Washington research paper released on 21 July recommended warning China that the US will use military force if North Korea does not curtail its nuclear ambitions.

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The Washington-based Center for a New American Security (CNAS) recommended aggressive new sanctions that go far beyond previous sanctions initiated by the West. These hard-hitting sanctions appeared in a new policy paper entitled 'A Blueprint for New Sanctions on North Korea’, by the organisation’s Energy, Economics and Security Program. ...

The report suggested eight types of sanctions, including attacking secondary sources of income, including everything from textiles to oil. ...

Six, start a high-profile public diplomacy campaign to discredit any trade with North Korea, underscoring human rights abuses, nuclear weapons development and regional destabilisation. ...