[2ndDivisionVet]

We could start shipping beef, pork, rice, wheat and chicken from the American heartland next week in exchange for those minerals.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Haven’t we heard the same thing about US imperialistic designs on the untold and untapped mineral deposits of Afghanistan?

[KC_Lion]

We could start shipping beef, pork, rice, wheat and chicken from the American heartland next week in exchange for those minerals.

Now why would you think President Trump could articulate such a deal? ;O)

[Magnum44]

Its silly that REE’s were the motivation behind getting nuke ICBM’s out of the hands an unstable dictator. But the left is always looking for an evil conspiracy...

[DoughtyOne]

Of course it couldn’t be about eliminating the nuclear weapons and missile systems of a nation that was our enemy, now could it!

Sheesh!

[so_real]

I suspect POTUS was far more interested in Eric Schmidt's electronic documents stored in North Korea than any rare Earth elements. Just a hunch.

[poinq]

Rare earth metals are not that rare. And NK is not the only place they can be found. The US is happy to have a source of funds that NK can mine themselves and sell as long as they stand down their army. The US will buy whatever they don’t have naturally. Its like Saudi oil. The US has never needed it. North America has always produced enough oil for us. We just don’t want others to corner the market. If anything its Europe that is without many natural resources.

[BigEdLB]

The Praseodymium awaits!

[TigersEye]

The left makes yet another case for leaving North Korea just as it is.

[waterhill]

In “The Art of the Deal” Trump strongly implied how he did not like to pursue oil, things he could not ‘see’.

[jdsteel]

But is there UNOBTAINIUM???

[353FMG]

After that we will ship rivers of LNG and crude. NOKO will be dining at the table of plenty IOW we shall be paying for SOKO’s and Japan’s security.

[unlearner]

Whether this is true or not, I don’t know. But I know there is a difference between President Trump and the career politicians we’ve had to live with up until now. When most politicians look at such a scenario, they start calculating based on how they can line their own pockets, how they can keep power or gain more of it, and how they can punish their political opponents. And last but not least they think of how they can make it sound like their efforts have something related to an American interest at heart. Almost none actually seem to care about the impact on us, and a large percentage seem to want to be sure any impact on us is detrimental rather than beneficial.

Thank God for President Trump.

[freedumb2003]

One of the greats of all time:

[Chode]

iirc we have plenty here in the USA but it was deemed off limits or the rights were sold either by zero or the clintoons