Tighter North Korea fuel sanctions unlikely to hurt regime, experts say
2017-12-26 09:20:29 source：Straits Times
December 26, 2017
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The United Nation's latest sanctions on North Korea are more likely to hurt ordinary people in the isolated nation than slow Kim Jong-Un's push to develop missiles capable of hitting the US with nuclear weapons.
"The likeliest impact on the deeper cuts in petroleum products will be on sectors nonessential to the survival of the regime," Paul Musgrave, assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said by email. "That means that the incidence of these cuts will fall hardest on ordinary North Koreans."
President Donald Trump's administration has spent much of 2017 urging other nations to ratchet up the pressure on Pyongyang, with much of that work focused on China, its biggest trading partner. Previous rounds of sanctions have failed to stop Kim from advancing his nuclear program and analysts said the latest resolution is unlikely to bring a solution any closer.
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