South Korea Considers Lifting Sanctions Against North Korea

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• Kento Morie

  京都大学 人間環境学研究科

  ・2019年05月15日

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  Officials cautioned that even if South Korea lifted its own sanctions, there was no way for it to foster economic relations with the North significantly because it had to abide by the United Nations limits. Many of South Korea’s sanctions against the North are already duplicated by United Nations ones, so lifting them would be merely symbolic, they said.
  
  Before the 2010 embargo was imposed, South Korea rivaled China as among North Korea’s biggest trading partners. Now, North Korea depends on China for almost all of its external trade. Liberal politicians in South Korea fear that by cutting trade ties with North Korea, South Korea has lost leverage, pushing the North closer to China.