Few think of North Korea as being a prosperous nation...
Always follow the money. North Korea has enough mineral resources to supply all the electronic trinket makers for years and years. Rich corporations want access, and what money wants; money gets.
Democrats better seize upon this opportunity or Trump will take credit, get four more years, and there will be a NK Trump Hotel put up in Pyongyang by 2025.
https://qz.com/1004330/north-korea-is-sitting-on-trillions-of-dollars-on-untapped-wealth-and-its-neighbors-want-a-piece-of-it/
Few think of North Korea as being a prosperous nation. But it is rich in one regard: mineral resources.
...An attack on the US or its allies would be suicidal, so Pyongyang probably aims to extract “aid” from the international community in exchange for dismantling some of its weaponry—rewind about 10 years to see the last time it pulled off the old “nuclear blackmail” trick.
But however much North Korea could extract from other nations that way, the result would pale in comparison to the value of its largely untapped underground resources.
Below the nation’s mostly mountainous surface are vast mineral reserves, including iron, gold, magnesite, zinc, copper, limestone, molybdenum, graphite, and more—all told about 200 kinds of minerals. Also present are large amounts of rare earth metals, which factories in nearby countries need to make smartphones and other high-tech products.
http://www.mining.com/largest-known-rare-earth-deposit-discovered-in-north-korea-86139/
Largest known rare earth deposit discovered in North Korea
Largest known rare earth deposit discovered in North Korea
Frik Els | Dec. 5, 2013, 6:12 PM |
Privately-held SRE Minerals on Wednesday announced the discovery in North Korea of what is believed to be the largest deposit of rare earth elements anywhere in the world.
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Why do you think the world has been flooded with heroin during the last decade?
Afghan opium production jumps to record level, up 87 per cent
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2017/November/afghan-opium-production-jumps-to-record-level--up-87-per-cent_-survey.html
double poppy hectares in 5 years, triple in 10 and now 17 years later? 5 times as much poppy is grown.
https://www.statista.com/chart/11926/poppy-cultivation-and-opium-production-in-afghanistan/
