The United States and North Korea: Future Prospects

The United States and North Korea: Future Prospects

- Speaker: Robert Scalapino, Professor, UC Berkeley

- Date : April 21, 1995.

"By the spring of 1993, both North Korea-US and North Korea-South Korea relations appeared to have returned to the "Cold War" status of earlier times. It was under these circumstances that the US began to initiate action in the United Nations for sanctions against North Korea. It soon became apparent that this would not be an easy course. China made clear its opposition to sanctions, and without Chinese enforcement the effectiveness of sanctions would be dubious...”