title: Economic Sanctions Against a Nuclear North Korea: An Analysis of United States and United Nations Actions Since 1950
author: Semoon Chang
description: "careful and detailed analysis...useful to anyone who wants to better understand an important part of relations between the US and North Korea"--<i>Pacific Affairs</i>; "a timely new book"--Bernhard Seliger, <i>North Korean Review.</i>
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  **Kindle Edition, 2017 © The Economist**
  
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   **Politics**
  
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  Tensions rose between **North Korea** and America. The regime of Kim Jong Un
  threatened to strike at American armed forces in Guam, a response to a warning
  from Donald Trump to unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if
  the regime continued to threaten America with its nuclear weapons. The heated
  rhetoric worried many and eclipsed an earlier decision by the UN Security
  Council to impose stringent new sanctions on North Korea.
  
    
  
   **Myanmar’s** official investigation into the human-rights abuses committed
  by the army in a crackdown against the Rohingya minority last October
  concluded that no such crimes had occurred. Earlier this year the UN reported
  mass killings, rapes and beatings committed against the Muslim Rohingya and
  called on the government to hold those responsible to account. Myanmar’s
  response was to bar the UN from conducting its own investigation.
  
    
  