North Koreans have tasted freedom through the markets. Sanctions could put that at risk.
2018-02-05 09:59:49 source：The Washington Post
February 4, 2018
SEOUL -- North Korean factory workers and restaurant staff have been returning from China in droves since the United Nations ordered member states to send laborers home last year.
North Korean “ghost ships” containing dead, or almost-dead, fishermen have been washing up on the shores of Japan after the seafood industry was sanctioned, too.
And even Kim Jong Un has admitted that the American-led “maximum pressure” campaign is hurting his country’s economy. The “life-threatening sanctions and blockade” were causing “difficult living conditions,” the North Korean leader said in a New Year’s address that repeatedly emphasized self-sufficiency.
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