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Reuniting North Korea and South Korea could cost trillions of dollars
CBS News Money Watch ^
| June 12, 2018
| Jillian Harding
Posted on 06/12/2018 1:07:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Rapscallion
Unless they deed over those rare earth minerals, platinum, gold, silver and iron ore. Then we’ll gladly pay. Estimates for those are above $40 trillion.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:15:24 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: G Larry
The left wants nuclear war..they would rather DIE than give President Trump credit for ANYTHING
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Too Early CBS. Too Early.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Media analysts and self-styled experts all sit around on their butts pontificating from outside while other people do the real work. They are a cohort of useless know-it-all blowhards who are quite possibly the most irritating people on the planet.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:16:49 PM PDT
by
Avalon Memories
( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So—Suddenly liberals are worried about costs?
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:17:25 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This piece is in no way negative towards America or TRUMP. It simply states the possible costs of reunification citing varying ways it could be accomplished.
To: Daddaroo
I would think private investment would cover a lot of it. Natter Nabobs of Negativity. No kidding. Investor from around the world could turn Un and his cronies into billionaires.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:17:55 PM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(Enforce the Law. Build the Wall. Deport them All.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How much would a nuclear war cost?
To: Governor Dinwiddie
South Korea is a world leader in finance and industry. They can handle it. Not our circus. Not our monkeys. Leave the border mined. Set up some component assembly facilities in NK to provide some employment. Gradually increase over time to the degree it's cost effective.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:18:20 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Clap for the wolfman)
To: Arm_Bears
This article has zero to do with costs borne by us.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who says the USA will pay for all of it you stupid CBS? How much coverage have you given in the last 20 years to how horrible conditions are for the people living there? Oh wait, that would be almost zero. Japan, China, South Korea and even Russia have a vested interest in making this work.
in other news, Main Street Media condemns D Day invasion for costing so much.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lets just get peace and de-nuke first.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:20:27 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Sarah Barracuda
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:20:33 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just get Lorne Michaels to make the offer:
The National Broadcasting Company has authorized me to offer you this check to be on our show...a certified check for $3,000. Here it is right here. A check made out to you, the Beatles, for $3,000. All you have to do is sing three Beatles songs. "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." That's $1,000 right there. You know the words - it'll be easy.
Like I said, this is made out to the Beatles - you divide it up any way you want. If you want to give less to Ringo, that's up to you - I'd rather not get involved. I'm sincere about this. If this helps you to reach a decision to reunite, it's well worth the investment. You have agents - you know where I can be reached. Just think about it, okay? Thank you.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:21:14 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Maybe, but in this case, I don't think NK has such a huge population that if every single one of them migrated south, there's probably a family that is connected somehow that would take them in.
They already have a common language so teaching them to be civilized would expedite the situation.
The only problem would be housing which is a lot easier in the countryside.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:24:18 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
To: dfwgator
According to legend Paul McCartney was at John Lennon’s watching this on Tv and told John they should go on down and sing.
To: Pearls Before Swine
I was in West Germany in 1990 when full reunification was in the planning stages. One of the West’s big telecom execs said that integrating the phones between east and west was going to be like merging an autobahn onto a one lane dirt road.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:25:05 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Captain Peter Blood
I think George showed up and got his $750.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:25:31 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anything and everything to hurt Trump.
Trump just finished a successful first step. No one is seriously talking about unification - Hell, they haven’t even signed a peace treaty for a war that’s been going on for 68 years! However, if they do it someday, that’ll be traced back to Trump...so they have to make it look bad.
What this stupid harridan doesn’t understand is that 90% of the people out there know very well that the most expensive peacetime investments pale in cost to fighting a hot war...particularly with nukes. One nuke on Seoul or Tokyo (or L.A., for that matter) will make $3 Trillion look like peanuts, and it won’t produce any future benefits (as unification would).
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:25:47 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be f Vanceree." A. E. van Vogt)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea has over $20 trillion in rare earth metal reserves so $3 trillion for reunification is actually quite affordable for them.
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posted on
06/12/2018 1:29:22 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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