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The total value of the untapped minerals in North Korea is said to be enough so that if shared out among the seven billion people on Earth, everyone would receive a share that was more than $1000.  NORTH KOREA IS HOME TO MORE THAN 200 MINERALS WORTH MORE THAN $7 TRILLION  The secluded nation is home to huge deposits of over 200 minerals and this is said to include copper, magnesite, zinc, molybdenum, gold, limestone and iron that in total is worth more than $7 trillion.  While there is a vast array or riches lying under the bedrock of North Korea, being able to take full advantage of them is something that has been very difficult. Thanks to the fact that North Korea lacks the mining machinery and equipment that would be needed to get at some of the rarer minerals, along with sanctions that make it illegal for private enterprises to put up drilling sites, it is impossible to extract the rarer minerals.  MINING MAKES UP 14% OF NORTH KOREA`S ECONOMY ...

On August 23, 46 civilians including women and children were killed and dozens others were injured in a Saudi airstrike on a hotel in Bit al-Izri village north of the Arhab area in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image Yemen Scholars Association and many Yemeni political parties condemned the massacre and emphasized their support of the fight against the Saudi coalition. The spokesperson for the Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) called all sides in Yemen to condemn the Arhab massacre. Also on August 23, Saudi sources announced that 8 Saudi soldiers were killed by Houthis forces in Jizan on the Yemeni-Saudi border. The sources added that the Saudi Army repelled the attack and destroyed many vehicles of the Houthis. At the  same day, tens of thousands supporters of the Houthis and former Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh marched in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The demonstrators stressed their support for the figh...

(Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images) On Thursday, Israeli Minster of Defense, Avigdor Lieberman said during a press conference at the Israel Institute of Energy and Environment that Israel will not sit and watch how the Iranian influence growing in Syria. “ Iran, via its Revolutionary Guard, is trying to create a new reality in the region with Iranian air force and naval bases in Syria, with Shiite militias numbering thousands of mercenaries and by manufacturing precise weaponry in Lebanon, ” Lieberman said. “Israel does not intend to resign itself to these attempts and will not act as onlooker from the sidelines.” Although Iranian presence in Syria is indeed growing Iran isn’t building any naval or air bases in Syria. Moreover, many experts doubt that the Iranian Air Force can handle a real deployment in Syria. However, Iran has mutliple facilities used as logistic bases across the country. In turn, Israel is likely trying to create a pretexts t...

By Tyler Durden   A  United Nations Committee tasked with combating racism on a global scale has  issued an ultra rare "early warning"  for the United States citing "alarming racism" trends . As StockBoardAsset.com notes,  this  rare signal often preludes the potential for civil conflict . In the past 10-years,  the early warning has been issued in Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The  United Nations Committee on the Eliminations of Racial Discrimination  has  called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to condemn “racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and through the country”. Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)  said : We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan,  promoting white suprem...

By Scott Humor & Kulak     Trump’s new commitment to continue the war in Afghanistan  comes as a shock, after all the Americans had voted to stop Washington’s wars around the world.  As a punishment, they are being treated to an artificially created civil conflict, while the deep state continues to use the US infrastructure, financial and human capital and military to pursue its doctrine of perpetual war. Reading from the teleprompter,  Trump not only unveiled plans for open-end war, he also promised to stop revealing any future US plans. It makes sense to look at the plans they have revealed so far to see what to expect. After all, we all have witnessed working of the plan revealed by the general Wesley Clark in 2007 to take out seven countries in five years. In August 2012, TRISA-Threats published “ Operational Environments to 2028: The Strategic Environment for Unified Land Operations”.  In this publication, TRADOC G-2 identified potenti...

While the US-backed 'Hunger Games' in South Korea plow on, a 'new strategy' for Afghanistan is really all about business. But China is already there By Pepe Escobar There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye.  Let’s start with North Korea. Once again the US/South Korea Hunger Games plow on. It didn’t have to be this way. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained how:  “Russia together with China developed a plan which proposes ‘double freezing’: Kim Jong-un should freeze nuclear tests and stop launching any types of ballistic missiles, while US and South Korea should freeze large-scale drills which are used as a pretext for the North’s tests.” Call it sound diplomacy. There’s no conclusive evidence the Russia-China strategic partnership floated this plan directly to the administration of US President Donald Trump. Even if the...