10 Trillion Reasons POTUS Will Make a Deal with North Korea
reviously, the regime has traded off its nuclear ambitions in return for international economic aid. The estimated $10 trillion in resource wealth could fund “several more generations of leaders called Kim,” as the Guardian puts it.
With China accounting for an estimated 90 percent of North Korea’s international trade, the sanctions are set to bite on one of the regime’s last major remaining sources of cash.
“There are very limited ways for North Korea to make money: selling weapons, smuggling and mining,” according to Choi Kyung-soo , president of the North Korea Resources Institute in Seoul.
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