Korea Peace Now, an international group dedicated to the cause of ending the Korean war, released a report on the impact of sanctions on North Korea. The report found that there were at least 3,968 preventable deaths attributed to sanctions in 2018. 3,193 of those deaths were children under the age of five, and 72 of the deaths were pregnant women.
The report says the deaths were due to “delays and funding shortfalls affecting UN programmes that address severe acute malnutrition, basic essential drugs, vitamin A, WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and emergency reproductive health kits.”
The report points out that while the sanctions are intended to affect North Korea’s government and military, they have evolved in recent years and are having a devastating impact on the country’s population.
In 2016, the UN Security Council started sanctioning entire sectors of North Korea’s economy, in response to a nuclear test. These sanctions banned most exports and cut-off any external revenue for the country. Sanctions have also impacted agricultural production by banning the import of fuel and certain machinery.
Health facilities in North Korea lack certain medical equipment due to sanctions. The report has a list of “humanitarian sensitive items” that are banned. The list includes sterilizers, ambulances, ultrasound and cardiograph machines, syringes, needles, catheters, and X-ray machines.
The report also focused on the impact these sanctions have on women in North Korea and found that they are disproportionately affected.
The report calls on the UN Security Council, and any UN member states that impose sanctions on North Korea to “lift all sanctions that are in violation of international law.” The report also calls on the government of North Korea to “Resolve the security crisis that led to the current situation in accordance with international law.”
Sanctions relief has been a major demand and a top priority for North Korea in recent talks with the Trump administration. Those talks broke down in early October, and North Korea gave the US the end of this year as a deadline to change their approach.
Probably a few thousand deaths by sanctions in Iran and Venezuela as well. Mostly the frail, elderly, and the children and the sick. Not near the 500,000 children killed by sanctions in Iraq a few years ago, but perhaps, getting there.
What a wonderful Christian country is the USA.
Sanctions against NK include
the EU, UN Security Council,
Australia, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan.
Hardily “Christian”, more like a secular agreement.
The USA uses it’s economic clout to blackmail other nations to be complicit in it’s crimes.
So, the US “blackmailed” Russia and China?
Sorry paul, you make no sense.
In the meantime, Kim has to have his suits altered to fit his fat a** into them. Sanctions work.
Here is an interesting article looking at how Washington is using unconventional means including financial “incentives” to wage war against other nations:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/04/us-power-wielding-unconventional.html
While the use of financial blackmail to bend countries to America’s narrative and overthrow nations like Syria who do not succumb to America’s wishes is, for the time being, effective, the group of nations that are subject to Washington’s economic whims are learning how to work together to defeat the sanctions environment.
Regrettably, war comes under a number of guises.
So does terrorism. Starving babies is how cowards fight.
Spanky needs to put Madalyn Albright on the team to explain how worthwhile this is.
All sanctions are acts of terrorism. There sole purpose is to inflict suffering upon civilians in order to strong arm them into supporting regime change. So my question is, when do we raid Trump’s compound on Pennsylvania Avenue? What makes him any better than any other baby killing thug?