By So does anyone think this will make any difference?:
The U.S. is stepping up pressure on North Korea by launching a taskforce to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1874. The interagency taskforce to enforce sanctions against North Korea was launched Friday to coordinate actions with other nations in implementing the UN resolution, including searches of outbound North Korean ships and aircraft and international financial sanctions.
U.S. President Barack Obama appointed former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg to lead the team, sending him to China in the near future to discuss sanctions on the North. [Chosun Ilbo]
This announcement seems to me to make it appear the government is doing something about something that they cannot do much about. This taskforce can’t do anything about the North Korean ships as long as they keep going to port at nations friendly to them such Myanmar. Now if they get Stuart Levey’s team involved with this taskforce to stop stuff like this from going on, then maybe they can do something.
7:39 pm on June 29th, 2009 1
It could make a big difference, but first, a general consensus has to be formed concerning the government’s ability to accept regime collapse. As long as sizable and/or important pieces of policy influencing sections of the government are scared to death of a regime collapse and believe it must be avoided at nearly all costs, then task forces such as this are ultimately doomed to having their hard work countermanded.
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