CIA Knew Economic Sanctions Wouldn’t Halt North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Buildup
A declassified CIA document from the early 1990s reveals that the US intelligence community knew that economic sanctions against Pyongyang would not cause the country to back off its nuclear expansion program.
The sanctions alone "would not cause North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program," according to the first ‘key judgement’ in the CIA report. US President Donald Trump stated via the White House website that designing a "state-of-the-art" missile defense system is a top priority to squash threats posed by Pyongyang.
Trump blasted Beijing via Twitter on January 3 for "taking massive amounts of money & wealth from the US in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!"
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