Posted on 06/18/2018 6:27:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hard-up North Korea has so much to gain from denuclearising and becoming part of the civilised world. The hermit kingdom was actually wealthier than the now-affluent South before the Korean War, and is blessed with everything from abundant mineral resources and oil reserves to fertile agricultural land and stunning tourist-friendly beaches, as noted by President Trump. With this in mind, here are 15 industries that could make North Korea very rich indeed.
Tourism
During their historic summit in Singapore this month, President Trump showed Kim Jong-un a video extolling the virtues of tourism. “They have great beaches,” President Trump told journalists. “You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, 'Boy, look at that view. Wouldn't that make a great condo?'"
North Korea does indeed boast world-class virgin beaches that are ripe for tourism development, and could well rival the South, which has a thriving industry – the tourism sector contributed a bumper $55.3 billion (£41.4bn) to the South Korean economy in 2017....
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Just like Cuba before Castro. Left-wingers destroy everything they touch.
See the Gaza Strip as another example.
#16 Forced labor camps to help wealthy tourists lose weight.
They aren’t religious extremist like Iran and money is hard to resist. The hardliners don’t care about the money. Interesting conundrum.
The South doesn’t have mineral treasure, their growth is from entrepreneurship and brain-power/hard work.
Rare Earth Minerals.
They got’em. We need ‘em.
They have a huge hollowed out mountain from nuke testing. That would make a nice dumpsite for nuclear waste materials that are piling up here in the USA. They take it off our hands, we pay them, a win-win situation.
Venezuela. Zimbabwe. Socialism/Communism destroys everything it touches. But our schools teach that Capitalism is evil.
“They have great beaches”
charlie don’t surf?
Now there’s an idea worth looking into.
Their beaches seem a bit far north...
Jeebus, think before posting.
#17 - Sell Hillary’s emails (I figure every foreign entity must have a copy. They might as well sell them to get some needed dinero),
Ski resorts. Norkland has plenty of cold.
Market their weight loss program?
I was surprised at the weather——for some reason I had it in my head that it was cold.
I got a kick out of the film industry——my DIL’s mother loves Korean soaps.
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They also ought to be able to support some fine ski resorts for both local (secondary) and global (primary) tourist income.
South Korea does produce fine strawberries and the excellent Asian pears, which should also bring in foreign exchange if the northern provinces also get into exportable agricultural products.
Of course, on of the biggest income-producing products would be fertilizer, always needed by the Far East for intensive farming.
Every family in North Korea gets 5lbs of meat per week, modern medicine, a basic car, a monthly bag of rice and sufficient cabbage for kimchi and we get 60% of the minerals. Deal?
I witnessed two cold Korean winters but I had been living in Iowa for four years so it wasn’t too different.
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