Edith M. Lederer, Christian Science Monitor/AP: World leaders take a stand together against North Korea
UN unanimously approves strongest sanctions yet against North Korea. Country leaders are working together toward pinning its nuclear threats under control.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea but not the toughest-ever measures sought by the Trump administration to ban all oil imports and freeze international assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.
The resolution, responding to Pyongyang's sixth and strongest nuclear test explosion on Sept. 3, does ban North Korea from importing all natural gas liquids and condensates. It also bans all textile exports and prohibits any country from authorizing new work permits for North Korean workers – two key sources of hard currency for the northeast Asian nation.
As for energy, it caps Pyongyang's imports of crude oil at the level of the past 12 months, and it limits the import of refined petroleum products to 2 million barrels a year.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 12, 2017
Time for America to Act on North Korea, Alone If Necessary -- Dov S. Zakheim, National Interest
Japan’s history shows oil embargoes are a dance with disaster -- William Pesek, Bloomberg
Distrust is fuelling instability in Asia, think tank reports – can a stronger Asean help mend ties? -- Catherine Wong,, SCMP
China’s Toxic Nationalism -- Graeme Smith, RCD/Lowy Institute
Should Pakistan cut military ties with Myanmar? -- Kamal Alam, TRT
Australia's Economy - Not So Exceptional? -- John Edwards, Lowy Institute
Iraq's Kurds Have Earned Their Right to Independence -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Will Abbas be forced to choose war against Israel? -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
Niger’s Issoufou Is Everything the West Wants in an African Leader -- Alex Thurston, WPR
Putin’s Peacekeepers: Beware of Russians Bearing Gifts -- Fredrik Wesslau, ECFR
How Putin Hoped to Make Up With the U.S. -- John Hudson, BuzzFeed
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could destroy each other -- Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Mikhail Saakashvili's return may spell trouble for Ukraine's Poroshenko -- Roman Goncharenko & Oleksandr Holubov, DW
How Western Capital Colonized Eastern Europe -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
What the U.S. can do about Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis -- Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot, Brookings
What Happens When War Is Outlawed -- Louis Menand, The New Yorker
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