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  • 5 - The Effect of Sanctions on the DPRK

  • from Part I - Humanitarian Consequences
  • Edited by Joy Gordon, Loyola University, Chicago
  • Book:
    Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad
    Published online:
    28 November 2025
    Print publication:
    18 December 2025, pp 92-123

  • Summary

    Sanctions have overall made a negative impact on the health outcomes of the North Korean people. The reasons are multifactorial. Sanctions are complex and have created massive administrative barriers and logistical challenges for the organizations that wish to take the time and effort to navigate them to provide humanitarian aid. Banks are hesitant to partner with those who work in the DPRK to avoid any possible risk that they could unknowingly be evading sanctions. For a similar reason, international funding for health in the DPRK has plummeted. The Covid-19 pandemic and associated DPRK-imposed border shutdown has exacerbated the precarious health status of the North Korean people. A reform of the sanctions regime is needed to ensure necessary humanitarian aid reaches the most vulnerable.