subject: Are Sanctions Working - China and Japan Agree on Economic Sanctions for North Korea [print this page] Are Sanctions Working - China and Japan Agree on Economic Sanctions for North Korea
First, let's discuss the issues as of mid-2006, when both China and Japan have agreed that six party talks are not working with North Korea's nuclear weapons manufacturing and it is now estimated that N. Korea has enough enriched plutonium to make 5 nuclear bombs. Since North Korea claims to have detonated a large nuclear bomb in a test underground it has alarmed the nations of that region. There was a huge seismic event of 3.5 Magnitude on the Richter Scale in Northern N. Korea.
Now China is upset because North Korea has defied their requests, and tested a so-called nuclear weapon underground. Japan has already applied trade sanctions on North Korea and has no other options in that arena. The United States has some options such as a Naval Blockage, but that would only hurt the people of N. Korea who live under that dictator.
China is all about business and trade and is not so particular with who it sells too; example being Iran, which sponsors international terrorism. Will China actually do sanction on N. Korea or does it just like talk tough? Will China flex its military muscle and take over N. Korea, it could use some extra growing room. Kim Jong Il has significant assets and that is some nice real estate? No one is going to help N. Korea and it would be a slam-dunk for Red China.
Either way a conflict may not be likely, and sanctions will not work and if North Korea insists on manufacturing nuclear weapons and exporting them as an Industry then the whole world has a problem. It is well-known that Iran has already met with Kim Jong Il and it is quite possible that they could be N. Korea's first customer if it has made nuclear weapons.
Now then, as we fast forward to 2011, what has happened? Nothing, and one could say China is happy, South Korea is still under stress, and the US is off doing other things and is preoccupied in other nations. Meanwhile Japan has bigger problems to deal with due to the Earthquake - and what has been resolved, not a darn thing. Perhaps, you might please consider all this?
