Broomhilda has figured out that North Korea is set to become a major US trading partner, leaving Germany and the rest of the EU in the dust.
Ummmm, no. To become a major trading partner, one needs infrastructure, goods and services to sell, and the ability to buy significant amounts of goods and services. North Korea is a long way away from all of those.
At $40bn/yr, North Korea (pop 25m) has the GDP of Trinidad (pop 1.3m) or Botswana (pop 2m) or Wyoming (pop 500k). When you're only 1/12 as productive per person as Botswana... or 1/50 as productive per person as Wyoming... you're not going to be a major trading partner for anyone.
The Cleveland metropolitan region (pop 2m) has a GDP of $120b... If Cleveland does 3 times as much with 1/12 the population... 36 times more productive per person... you're not going to be a major anything for a long time.