Q-Team
President Trump's twitter video yesterday traced the mis-steps of US diplomacy to prevent North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons beginning with then President Clinton. Then citizen Donald Trump warned the rather aggressive questioning from the late Tim Russert about the consequences of war to eliminate a threat which did not presently exist, a problem which then citizen Trump warned of and now has to deal with as President as the remainder of the clip showed. In retrospect, two things came to mind; this country no longer has a TV personality on MSM with the candor of the late Tim Russert, second, Donald Trump is far more wise and consistent in his opinions as time after time he is proven correct despite the criticisms he receives.
Q-Team, you have repeatedly asked 'who controls North Korea' and have stated that if the truth were indeed known, we in the US would be shocked. Clearly, what we have been told is 'fake news,' and as such, CIA involvement becomes a target on the radar, but China and Russia must surely have a hand in this, the former more influential, but as that would come as little surprise, the question then becomes how much influence does the CIA and other intelligence agencies play a role? President Clinton's ties to China in funding his '96 re-election campaign are well known, as are the sale of US military secrets and 'allowed to be stolen' nuclear secrets from Los Alamos, as well as the outright sale of US technology to the Chinese relating to military aircraft design, future plans on missile development, and for the most part, the whole 9 yards. Under GW Bush, China entered the WTO. Under Obama, nothing of any significance changed to alter the path of anything except the reduction of US military capabilities to deal with an ever increasing threat to our post WWII and Korean War allies.
In researching the mineral reserves and other 'hard assets' under North Korean control, Rare Earth Elements (somewhat of a misnomer in rarity) in particular, the Panama Papers reveal interesting aspects as to who was dealing with North Korea given the 'sanctions' imposed upon NK missile developments. In the literary world, however, much of the groundwork has already been done and revealed in the fictitious Tom Clancy novels, in this instance under the writing of 'Full Force and Effect' author Mark Greaney. In an article written by JR Mailey at 38north.org, in part VI, 'Stranger than Fiction,' we read:
"If the story of an Australia-based geologist, a massive rare earth deposit, a web of offshore companies and accounts, and a North Korean arms trader seems like the plot of a thriller novel, that’s because, well, it actually is. In Full Force and Effect—a Tom Clancy novel following the exploits of the always-reluctant action hero Jack Ryan—a young and “untested” North Korean dictator is looking to “prove his strength” by expanding the country’s nuclear program. “Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nation’s economic fortune,” reads the novel’s plot summary. “A rich deposit of valuable minerals have [sic] been found in the Hermit Kingdom. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage.
The similarities do not end there. In the novel, US intelligence agencies are hard-pressed
to identify the foreign actors involved in a new rare earth minerals project in Jongju. After learning that the Chinese miners working on the project previously had been ejected by the regime a year prior, President Jack Ryan even asks his advisers to identify the project’s new backers. “Easier said than done, Mr. President,” Ryan is told. “This transaction…is a dead end. It only leads to a shell company.” Strikingly, it turns out, one mysterious foreigner involved is an Australian geologist. The North Korean partner in the novel is the same as SRE Minerals’ Korean Natural Resource Trading Corporation. A former senior official at MI6 even plays a key role in the thriller to boot."
Published a year after the big announcement of Pacific Century’s December 2013 rare earth find, it is entirely possible that Schurmann’s case inspired the plot of Full Force and Effect in the first place. Reading the book, I was struck by the level of granular detail about the process of extracting and exporting minerals from North Korea—far more detail than I had seen with regard to Schurmann’s operations. In fact, I had not seen a single shred of evidence that any minerals had actually been mined or extracted by any company linked to Leech or Schurmann."