The sanctions against North Korea announced on Friday were an important series of measures that reflect a serious, professional approach to sanctions implementation that will pay dividends in confronting what is probably the Trump administration’s chief national security and foreign policy threat.
Although these sanctions were immediately overbilled by the president as the “heaviest ever” — that’s accurate only purely by numbers of designees — the strength isn’t in the sweeping nature or massive impact to an economy that was already nearly totally isolated from the rest of the world.
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