As the UN Security Council considers its response to North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, Pyongyang should brace itself for “bone-numbing” new international sanctions, South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned last week.
Her words came hours after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of new legislation to step up unilateral American sanctions against North Korea.
Yet even as new sanctions loom, North Korea’s biggest test to date has thrown into stark relief the failure of existing ones to halt its nuclear progress — and with China still unwilling to cast its treaty ally into economic ruin, analysts see little hope that the next round of measures will achieve that goal.
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