, broadening existing economic sanctions and tightening their enforcement. However, an unintended consequence of the nuclear crisis … interest in cooperating with international efforts to pressure North Korea, let alone in supporting sanctions. North Korea … appears to have rearranged its external economic relations to reduce any impact that traditional sanctions could have. Given …

unfeasible, sanctions have become the central instrument of the international community in dealing with the threat from North … Korea. While inherently linked to and built upon the respective resolutions of the UN Security Council, the EU’s sanctions … sanctions regime of the EU currently in operation. Since its inception in 2006, the EU's sanctions regime against the DPRK …