Drop the nukes, full inspection, and perhaps we will help you develop your natural resources.
You don’t say!!!
A land in dire need of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Sounds like appropriate restitution for that conflict in the 50’s.
And? The same has been said about Afghanistan. So what? What is the point here? A madman commie dictator on top of a supposed gold mine of treasure. How does that change anything? Is he using it to benefit his own common man? Nonsense.
Sure, we’ll give you money to help exploit your mineral resources. You are now the 51st state. Sign here.
This could explain why certain people of the certain side have been secretly making trips there. Greed has no bounds for them.
That will be a good part of the challenge—channeling some of the wealth to the people.
Alex Jones sounded like he’d had a conversation with the big guy again when he reported that the deal with NK was done last week over a 4-hour dinner. It includes the dismantling of their nukes and a gradual 10-year plan for reunification. He said it was inevitable that the ruling fam would get a plutocratic stash, but at least the people would be free and no longer starving.
North Korea, a mountainous country, has a lot of minerals in the mountains.
Big Deal. Every mountainous country does. Minerals in the ground do not translate into valuable ore.
Ore is minerals in the ground that can be mined at a profit. If the mineral cannot be mined at a profit, it is waste rock.
Maybe some of those minerals can be mined at a profit if a regime was in place that reliably followed the rule of law.
Mining is especially vulnerable to political instability.
Smaug also requests financial assistance in exploiting the treasures of Erebor.
Regards,
The problem is that they don’t think like we do. I’ve worked with the South Koreans and the Japanese and I can tell what I want and they hear every word that I have said and not understand what I mean. For instance, I can send a “draft spreadsheet” marked “DRAFT” and tell them that it is full of errors, but look at it and tell me if this is the type of information that they need. Two days later, I get a pile of corrections, but nothing about if the information is what they want.
“Lose of face” is really a big deal. If I do something stupid, you’ll joke about it at the bar, we’ll laugh about it and life goes on. If a Korean does the same thing, it will cause real anguish and be a life changing event.
People with no experience in mining think you just hook up a hose to a mineral deposit and out comes money. To mine a trillion in ore and actually turn a profit requires hundreds of billions in expenditure and years of careful planning. It’s far from a hole in the ground filled with money just for the taking.
So they want peace so we can help them exploit their mineral wealth and then they will promptly tell us to go pound sand. They would use the ChiComs but they know that the Chinese would never go away or allow themselves to be taken advantage of.
The idiots probably thought they could capitalize on their natural resources by destroying civilization with nukes but they finally realized that there would be no one to buy their natural resources. Now they are seeking to con their way into our good graces before they pull the nuclear trigger. They’ll soon recognize the folly of that plan too. The only way they get help from us is to totally give up that con and submit to inspections, etc. Bet this ticks off the Democrap Party.
Okay, so there is the potential for a degree of prosperity in the North once the oppressive communist dictatorship is totally gone. Destroying the Kim Dynasty is still job one and the only way to a better life in the North.
That sounds like an opportunity for POTUS when he meets with Rocket Man.
This is the point of capitalism. North Korea shouldn't have to buy anything. Free markets and capital formation would create the necessary ingredients to exploit whatever mineral resources that exist. Jobs, wealth, products, tax revenue... all of these would follow.