EU sanctions against North Korea: making a stringent UN sanctions regime even tougher
While Pyongyang had been under sanctions by the United States since the end of the Korean War in 1953, the United Nations Security Council only imposed sanctions on North Korea in 2006, after it conducted a series of launches of ballistic missiles, soon to be followed by its first nuclear test. The...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/713917 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/713917 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | EU sanctions North Korea United Nations Security Council Korean war Ciencias Sociales |
| Sumario: | While Pyongyang had been under sanctions by the United States since the end of the Korean War in 1953, the United Nations Security Council only imposed sanctions on North Korea in 2006, after it conducted a series of launches of ballistic missiles, soon to be followed by its first nuclear test. The first nuclear proliferation crisis involving the North Korea broke out in 1993, when Pyongyang first announced its intention to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which it had first joined in 1985. In 1994, the EU published its first Asia Strategy, where it proposed to play a more active role in the region. Economic exchanges between the EU and North Korea also increased as a result of this political rapprochement. The EU had actively participated in the mechanism created to manage the first nuclear crisis, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation |
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