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Sanctions are the restrictions which are imposed on a country about its activities, goods as well as its services. At times, it may involve its citizens and the entities. The sanctions that are energy based have been used in the oil-producing countries to slow their activities down by reducing their financial base. Over time, the world’s super powers have continued to pressure North Korea with heavy economic sanctions. The recent activity on the North Korea involve the United States as well as the United Nations sanctions which were imposed to bar North Korea was banned from indulging nuclear tests by both the United States and the United nation sanctions. The country’s import of the crude oil was banned together with the exportation of the textiles following its recent involvement in nuclear tests on September 7th2017. The country is limited access to the goods to impose behavior modification and penalties; this was the ninth sanction regime that North Korea is exposed to from 2006 following the involvement in the nuclear weapons and missiles. However, are energy-related sanctions a reasonable course of action to address human rights issues, terrorism exportation, and national aggression?

(paragraph 2)The sanctions imposed on North Korea involve total restrictions from access to natural gas or the condensates, which is capped at two million annually, import of crude oil and the petroleum products. This was opposed to the demand of petroleum, which is often around 4.5 million barrels and 4 millions of crude oil on an annual basis. Their exports which include textiles and international labor restrictions have been put and their contracts have been terminated (Lau, 2014).Before the sanctions were imposed on North Korea, here is a graphical representation of the major exports derived from the 2017 statistics. The chart clearly shows the major export countries, which North Korea relies upon, and their percentage exports made. From the graph it is evident that North Korea heavily relied on China as shown below.

( paragraph 2) The exports were expected to total up to $938 million, which include the coal and the other minerals. The country is therefore starved of approximately $623million in addition to the revenues. The United States aimed at imposing an even stricter oil embargo on the country despite the strong opposition witnessed from china and Russia in strong opposition to the act and suggested that it would result in political instability. Moreover, the move would have compromised the humanitarian’s impact for the human rights of the North Koreans. According to the recent recommendation on the potential impacts of sanctions on the human rights,

human rights entail the freedom as well as the rights that the citizens have. (Explanation) They stretch from right to liberty, nationality, life and they are entitled to freedom of religion, education, though, employment and government involvement. The sanctions, on the other hand, deprive the citizens of their right to have a quality life. The following pie chart is a representation of North Korean exports as explained above.

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The country involved in unscrupulous actions leads to the suffering of the citizens since those working in foreign countries often get their contracts terminated immaturely and are forced to retreat to their countries. They, therefore, suffer from national discrimination on their nationality grounds. The United Nations human rights commission as at 2006 associated the adverse effects of economic sanctions with aggravations of income imbalances on the citizens. Moreover, it affected the innocent citizens, and these were mostly the vulnerable groups in the society. Nevertheless, they encouraged the people to indulge in illegal and unethical business to make ends meet. These include smuggling or impersonation in the foreign employment ventures. The key goal of the economic sanctions is actually to stop the unscrupulous deeds of the governments and the leaders. Unfortunately, it causes more harm to poor than the elites. The political elites do not get affected by the economic meltdowns. It is a punitive measure whose impact lands on the citizens, and this has been confirmed by the poverty strikes in North Korea (Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law, 2016). The 2012 economic sanctions were associated with inducing poverty that led to cannibalism practices. In the 1990s, there were more than two million deaths because of famine. Inducing life suffering of the citizens through sanctions violates the human rights and it should be highly regarded as evil. Sanctions by United States on Cuba had been imposed to end terrorism.

Moreover the involvement of the sanction is as per united nation security resolution which bars all involvement of the countries in terrorist activities. These are measures to bar the country from extending more terrorism adventures through the abject limitations of the economic involvement. The financial base to support its actions are cut off through the exports and import bans. The country weapons are cut off from importation and exportation of its petroleum products limited. Libya exportation under the dictatorial regime of Mohammud Gaddafi was forced to have its petroleum banned from exportation by the United States of America. Moreover, Iraq and Iran terrorism attacks have limited their access to the petroleum market with the United States of America. These efforts are effective measures since the nations involved get to adopt better measures, and upon financial crisis, they are forced to shun the terrorist attacks. Sanctions have been advanced, and their effects on the national aggression have been quite diverse with most situations leading to diversity.

(Conclusion) We can therefore conclude that the countries involved in the sanctions have had difficulty coming to terms. For instance, the stricter restrictions that the united states meant to impose was predestined to cause war and was, therefore, softened to allow capping rather than total bans which would otherwise create a more diversity on international level (Tessman and Woitek, 2015). They were expected to solve the differences on their interests through talk, and Russian governments advocate that the stricter measures be imposed. In this regard, it is precise to denote that sanctions may lead to more national aggression rather than harmony. The international peace, however, is paramount, and this is often the core goal. Sanctions targeted the petroleum producing nations banning their exports and imports, but the aftermath of the actions have degraded the human rights, cause suffering, and economic crisis of the citizens. It compromises the human rights despite the authoritarian regimes whose interests are not vested on the citizens’ well-being and repeatedly violate the international laws. The morality of economic sanctions has been deemed useless and that it does not reach its destined impacts. The mistakes committed by few leaders or groups are compounded and used to victimize the entire citizens. The national relations have been aggravated while the international peace has been of key interest

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