Do sanctions work?- Inside Story

It's a cycle of provocation, condemnation followed by sanctions. Repeated time and time again.
North Korea has been under some form of UN or U.S. sanction for the better part of the past 25 years.
Now, the security council has imposed more sanctions targeting Pyongyang's oil imports and textile exports.
Existing sanctions don't seem to have much sway in preventing the government from developing its nuclear and missile programmes.

So, how will these new sanctions be any different?
And have previous sanctions had any impact on other governments? Or is it the people who suffer the most?

Presenter: Jane Dutton

Guests:

Emil Dall - Research Fellow specialising in nuclear proliferation and sanctions policy at the Royal United Services Institute.

Sarah Brockmeier - Project Manager at the Global Public Policy Institute.

Richard Poplak - Senior contributor to the Daily Maverick.

[HungarianParagon]

Countries have the right to trade with whomever they like. Whether sanctions are "effective" in changing their ways is secondary to the moral obligation not to feed dictatorships.

[damavand]

As long as there are countries like US who has many nuke bomb every country has right to make nuke

[MrRandyrocks]

Short answer NO. All dialogue on the acting stage. The only thing that brings peace is eat when it comes to Kim jung.

[devonhester]

They aren't meant to work independently, they are used in combination with a host of other policies taken through multilateral and unilateral actions against specific member states. Also moral obligations are not an argument that should be taken when addressing international relations because morality is too flexible to provide a common ground work for argument. Also they do not address positive sanctions which were used against North Korea in the 90s to curb their nuclear policies, these positive sanctions were used as an incentive to halt nuclear build up, when these obligations were met they were rewarded with food and technology. It is also important to note that it was later revealed that North Korea had secretly been building up their programs disregarding the requirements of those sanctions and using the rewards as a tool to bolster the state as a whole.