If the Security Council takes any punitive action, like economic sanctions, North Korea has said this is tantamount to going to war.

North Korea is just avoiding (being subject to) economic sanctions.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

It has been an underpinning of U.S. policy and a premise of the Perry report that a South-North dialogue is central to peace and stability on the peninsula.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.