All Comments for Interview: Sanctions Against North Korea Aren't Working

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Joshua Stanton from Washington DC :

With all due respect to my friend Andrei -- and I do consider him a friend -- he really doesn't know if sanctions are working, and should not represent himself as an expert on a technical legal subject he does not understand well.

(1) the sanctions are only now being implemented,
(2) as he eventually admits, sanctions need more than a few days, weeks, or month to work,
(3) the evidence he cites is cherry-picked or unreliable,
(4) he overlooks some promising signs that the sanctions are working, and mostly
(5) he doesn’t understand the sanctions or how they work.

http://freekorea.us/2016/07/19/andrei-lankov-doesnt-really-know-if-north-korea-sanctions-are-working/

Jul 20, 2016 07:11 PM

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Toloraya :

Just for reference about North KOrean workers in Russia: for Russians the factual tax is about 45% (part is paod by the employer and deducted from the salare fund), so even 60% for Koreans is not that outrageous.

Jul 15, 2016 12:00 PM

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