Sanctions will fail if you don't enforce them by whatever means necessary.
Around the globe, U.S. intelligence agencies are playing an elaborte cat-and-mouse game against a network of smugglers and agents of the North Korean regime. The fight happens in the shadows but the stakes couldn’t be higher. Just last week, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on six North Korean ships, 16 individuals, and nine companies that it said had facilitated Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
Last week CIA Director Mike Pompeo cited the “remarkable creativity” by U.S. agents that led to stopping some shipments to North Korea. “We have officers all round the world working diligently to make sure we do everything we can to support the U.S. pressure campaign to tighten the sanctions,” he told a small crowd in Washington D.C.
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WNU Editor: So true .... Sanctions will fail if you don't enforce them by whatever means necessary. This should have been U.S. policy years ago.
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The north Koreans who fail to make money for Kim Jong-Un will likely get mauled by dogs...incentives, incentives
"....sanctions will fail if you don't enforce them by whatever means are necessary." This is why they fail. Against strong adversaries who have numerous allies there are no means by which they can be enforced. More often than not sanctions cause more harm than they do good. IF we can get Russia and China on board with the sanctions and keep them on board, it may just work. Without them on board there is no chance.
Obama was feckless in most of his public policy pronouncements. Particularly his ISIS war, it was all window dressing and make work effort. Proven by Trump's first year where he did more in less than 1 year than Obama did since 2014.
Asian Pivot? Nothing to it when you look at actual military hardware.
North Korea nuclear arms program? Lip service and nothing more.
In the above he was worse than Bush II and Clinton.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/958140481317240833?
https://mobile.twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/958030778071441408?
https://mobile.twitter.com/gordoncorera/status/958097614901252096?
"On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) questioned Trump’s motivation for blowing the sanctions deadline, pointing out that that the Trump administration had this week allowed Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who is currently under sanctions, to visit the United States.
“We sanctioned the head of their intelligence and then the Trump administration invites him to waltz through our front door,” Schumer said. “This is an extreme dereliction of duty by President Trump, who seems more intent on undermining the rule of law in this country than standing up to Putin.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/trump-blew-a-deadline-to-impose-new-russian-sanctions-and-democrats-are-furious/
Jay,
You are ahead of me. Sergey Naryshkin is my 20:30 EST post
https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/958376695324729344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
With a total sea and port embargo, the stakes are to high to listen to Kim's bluff if "this means war".
A naval flotilla up of u.s,south Korea , UK,Australia and Japan will leave Kim in no doubt sanctions are here to stay.
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