Dec 05,2017 Open Forum Sanctions and Nuclear Weapons are Changing North Korea Sanctions are changing North Korea but not in ways expected by the world community imposing them, or by the Kim regime that is fighting them. Clearly, they have not yet succeeded in stopping North Korea’s nuclear program and, arguably, not even slowed it. But equally clear is North Korea’s increasing isolation from the global economy […] William B. Brown Byongjin , Economic sanctions , Juche , secondary sanctions , UN Security Council Resolution 2375