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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Autores: Esteban Rodríguez, Mario, Portela, Clara
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
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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