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Author(s) Andrei Lankov
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date October 10, 2006
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116043022080987335.html?mod=opinion_main_europe_asia
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Quotes-start.png "From apartheid South Africa to Fidel Castro's Cuba, the aim of an embargo is usually to encourage the population to agitate for change, or even rise up and overthrow their government. But that won't work when it comes to North Korea, where agitators and dissenters quickly face the firing squad. A regime that sacrificed at least half a million of its citizens during the famine of the 1990s is hardly likely to care if their plight is now further worsened by sanctions." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Economic sanctions should be placed on North Korea on the topic North Korean nuclear crisis.