The article concentrates only on North Korea. However there is a vast body of literature on sanctions that in the last decade mostly focused on the case of Iraq. The active utilization of sanctions as a tool of international policy dates back to the aftermath of World War 1, when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suggested that the adoption of sanctions was a method by which the league of Nations could keep the world free of war. he described them as a"peaceful, silent, deadly remedy." The most comprehensive study on the effects of actual sanctions is Hufbauer, Schott, and Elliott The essence of their analysis of 116 case studies since World War 1 is that historically, sanctions have a poor track record The rare success of cases such as Sou Africa is associated with unique factors that are unlikely to be found elsewhere. Although they are applied most frequently, unilateral sanctions have the lowest chances for success. Legal experts have raised the issue of the correspondence of sanctions