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Aug 11, 2017

08/11/2017: Are economic sanctions actually effective?

With tensions rising between the U.S. and North Korea, we’ll talk with Leon Sigal — director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project — about whether sanctions actually work, and then look at growing support in Congress for greater missile defense spending. Afterwards, we’ll discuss the U.S. Postal Service’s push to gain more freedom to raise the price of stamps.

This picture taken and released on July 4, 2017 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the test-fire of intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location.
This picture taken and released on July 4, 2017 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the test-fire of intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location.
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With tensions rising between the U.S. and North Korea, we’ll talk with Leon Sigal — director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project — about whether sanctions actually work, and then look at growing support in Congress for greater missile defense spending. Afterwards, we’ll discuss the U.S. Postal Service’s push to gain more freedom to raise the price of stamps.