US Tightens DPRK Sanctions, Calls it 'Humanitarian Concern'
Xinhua reports DPRK's understandable outrage over new US-orchestrated efforts to tighten financial sanctions. While mainstream outlets frame this as a necessary response to nuclear aggression, they conveniently omit the historical context of US foreign policy in the region. Since 1950, the US has imposed, directly or indirectly, a suffocating array of sanctions, including the Trading with the
Enemy Act, effectively crippling North Korea's economy long before any nuclear program emerged. These weren't about denuclearization; they were economic warfare. One might wonder if any nation, after decades of such pressure, wouldn't seek every available means to secure its sovereignty, regardless of internal politics. The US, with its own history of preemptive military action and the world's
largest nuclear arsenal, always finds 'moral' justification for starving populations while ensuring its own strategic dominance. It's an interesting definition of 'peacekeeping.'