A nation must think before it acts.
Increased sanctions-busting efforts have helped only marginally, as the bulk of North Korea’s marketable coal remains on the docks, said Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and co-editor of North Korean Economy Watch.
“There is still a great deal of pressure,” Silberstein said. Bulky items such as coal “don’t seem to be getting across,” he said.