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Crippling or bearable? The UN sanctions squeezing N. Korea

The cash-strapped regime has been under multiple UN sanctions for decades over its weapons programmes and has blamed them for its economic woes. [AFP]

The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to produce a deal on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, with the two sides at an impasse over the sanctions imposed on the North.

The cash-strapped regime has been under multiple UN sanctions for decades over its weapons programmes and has blamed them for its economic woes.

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