U.N. Sanctions Against North Korea Are Still Absolutely Necessary

All real peaceful Nations and people around the World must always believe that sanctions against North Korea are necessary and can work effectively, in the name of peace. To think, speculate and assess negative or ineffective results base on any or all forms of sanctions are detrimental to all Nations. We need the kind of results that penalties like sanctions can and have produced to encourage violent or aggressive nations to live peacefully with their neighbors. This applies to all nations without reservations, since the unfair application of Global Rules and Regulations will only produce resentment and reactions contrary to global peace.

The United Nations (U.N.) group of global states have for many years imposed sanctions on different nations base on violations of its Agreements. Nations such as South African, Iran, Ivory Coast, Liberia, North Korea, Sudan and many others have historically been on the receiving end of sanctions. In contemporary times, the U.N. have now imposed additional sanctions on North Korea base on its recent testing of nuclear devices contrary the United Nations Declarations. The sanctions are meant to work effectively to convince and/or persuade North Korea to stop its current actions and encourage talks of peace and economic gains for the country and region. Will the sanctions work? Many optimists will say yes, or at least they hope so. Others will reflect on failed historical past to say maybe or no. But nevertheless, sanctions are a must!

U.N. sanctions like an embargo on military and technological materials, on luxury goods, the freezing North Korea's financial assets and others in the U.N.'s Resolution 1718 (October 14, 2006) are essential: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/indexkor.htm. No military actions by any nation will be supported! Sanctions are peaceful remedies to a serious problem. Though they sometimes fall on the burden of the poor in the states being "disciplined," they can be effective in undermining weapons of mass destruction. We are also aware of other adverse problems of this approach. The aim though, must never be to just increase inflation, unemployment, reduction in the standard of living, starvation of the poor and political disintegration, but to encourage a nation to live peacefully and comply with their global obligations to which they are apart by written, verbal or active consent.

Sanctions can reduce the military resources and support for a particular state capacity to engage in current and future unacceptable actions to the world. Internal conflicts may results from sanctions as the economic and military specified objectives of the sanctions begin to work. In South Africa, for example, under the old regime of apartheid, some will confess that it was the fear on internal war or disunity that significantly aided the reversal of that regime, stemming form global sanctions and there effectiveness. See Can Sanctions Work Against Iran? - www.globalpolicy.org. Therefore, maybe the issue is not if sanctions will work, but the effective diplomatic and economic skills and subtlety that are required to make them work! The World must strongly believe in and use a diplomatic dialogue approach to resolve North Korea's issue.

Futhermore, sanctions are effective since we need to remember that in the 1990's North Korea's economy was adversely affected under similar penalties. Grain production in that country was affected. Imports from China and South Korea are necessary for sufficient use. If the present U.N. Sanctions are properly implemented and monitored, then this can be a helpful remedy. It may not bring about a total change in the political theory, philosophy and governance approach of the country. See Sanctions Won't Stop North Korea's Nukes at http://www.newspoint.us. That is not necessarily the aim. The main purpose should be to assist in the removal of aggressive military behavior or threats. The world must be very concerned about the adverse effects on the country's general population, but also about maintaining global peace by the most peaceful means possible.

Importantly, the most essential country in the successful objective and effectiveness of sanctions against North Korea is China. China is a very respected global nation with a very long history and influence on North Korea. They have been North Korea's primary supporter and source of food and fuel. The fear China may have that a collapsing North Korea could bring United States troops stationed in South Korea to its border and the exodus of refugees across the border from North Korea to China thereby "destabilizing" its economy, are essential concerns that must never be ignored. The aim of sanctions cannot be to create overbearing problems for a sanction supportive nation. See China Issues Warning to North Korea at www.newsvine.com. But when all the sanctions are finally approved, implemented and monitored, they will undoubtedly require the full support of China to be effective, despite the above legitimate concerns of China. The main aim must still be global peace and China is critically essential to the achievement of this through sanctions.

Some are pointing to the fact that other nations like the United States, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and others have nuclear weapons, so why shouldn't North Korea (and even Iran) have the right to theirs. The answer to this point is not simple. What is essential is not necessarily the right to have nuclear weapons, but the current and future intentional purpose of the use of such weapons without discretion and in a terrorist style approach to possession and use. But why not implement an agreeable global law banning the possession of nuclear weapons by all states around the world? Realistically, if we have some knowledge of the Theory of Realism and International Affairs, we will know that this is very unlikely, but not impossible. That is why aggressive possession and a terrorist approach to nuclear weapons are essential elements to be examined.

The United States is the first country to possess nuclear weapons from the 1944-45 World War 2 era. As much as the world knows, since then it has not used the weapons for destructive or terrorist style warfare, despite the many wars it has engaged in since that period. It is said that South Africa is the only current global state to have acquire nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled its total possession. If this is true, it is an essential point of interest. See Why Are North Korea and Iran Going Nuclear? - http://english.ohmynews.com. This by no means over-rule the issue at hand that sanctions against North Korea are still important. Sanctions here are being applied to prevent what has been clearly out spoken to be aggressive and "war-like" behavior contrary to the U.N.'s and International Laws to which North Korea is a voluntary agreeable party.

The best cure for an expansive global nuclear world is not yet known and agreed to. Prevention in terms of not possession that weapon's power may help. But base on the 21st century war on increased global terrorism, some states and organizations will unfortunately continue to seek nuclear power. So the more powerful, larger, intellectual, economic and military nations across the globe must take the initiative to curtail the effective search and successful possession of the weapon. The U. N. sanctions by full agreement, implementation and successful monitoring are therefore still very essential to achieve and maintain global peace.