The U.N. Security Council is once again piling pressure on North Korea, hoping to deter it on its path to attaining a credible nuclear deterrent. On Dec. 22, the Security Council approved new tightened sanctions targeting several key export sectors, labor sent abroad and, most importantly, North Korean energy imports. These measures are a response to North Korea's Nov. 28 test of a missile theoretically capable of hitting anywhere in the United States. And though both U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for China to fully cut off oil to the North with the aim of halting its nuclear program, the approved measures will fall short of that White House push. Thus, though substantial, the sanctions will not stop Pyongyang, particularly now that a nuclear deterrent is within its reach....
