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Analysis: Russia wants to build a bridge to North Korea. WAPO

Drumcollie

Drumcollie

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North Korea shares a border with three countries — South Korea, China and Russia.

The one with Russia is just 11 miles, following the Tumen River and its estuary in the far northeast. There is one lone crossing, dubbed the “Friendship Bridge.” It opened in 1959 and offers the two nations a fairly basic rail connection. This week, amid a period of relative calm on the oft-tense Korean Peninsula, Russian representatives traveled to North Korea to discuss an idea: They should open another bridge.

Though the planning appears to be at a preliminary stage, it may show that Russia and North Korea are looking toward a trading future beyond sanctions and military tensions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...th-korea-literally/ar-BBKDjmE?ocid=spartandhp

What will the be trading?

I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.

US Dollar1 USD = 899.494 KPW
↔
North Korean Won1 KPW = 0.00111174 USD

http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=KPW

Apparently the money is not worth the paper it is printed on. So what trade will they do?
 
Drumcollie said:
North Korea shares a border with three countries — South Korea, China and Russia.

The one with Russia is just 11 miles, following the Tumen River and its estuary in the far northeast. There is one lone crossing, dubbed the “Friendship Bridge.” It opened in 1959 and offers the two nations a fairly basic rail connection. This week, amid a period of relative calm on the oft-tense Korean Peninsula, Russian representatives traveled to North Korea to discuss an idea: They should open another bridge.

Though the planning appears to be at a preliminary stage, it may show that Russia and North Korea are looking toward a trading future beyond sanctions and military tensions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...th-korea-literally/ar-BBKDjmE?ocid=spartandhp

What will the be trading?

I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.

US Dollar1 USD = 899.494 KPW
↔
North Korean Won1 KPW = 0.00111174 USD

http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=KPW

Apparently the money is not worth the paper it is printed on. So what trade will they do?
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Putin is always looking for Weapons customers.....Don't know how much he can sell to NK they are not too wealthy.....but a few of the s-4 rocket rigs would be a real pain in the ass to us I can tell you.

JO
 
Drumcollie said:
I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.
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How many tons of Hillary's ore did the Russians take possession of?
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Drumcollie said:
North Korea shares a border with three countries — South Korea, China and Russia.

The one with Russia is just 11 miles, following the Tumen River and its estuary in the far northeast. There is one lone crossing, dubbed the “Friendship Bridge.” It opened in 1959 and offers the two nations a fairly basic rail connection. This week, amid a period of relative calm on the oft-tense Korean Peninsula, Russian representatives traveled to North Korea to discuss an idea: They should open another bridge.

Though the planning appears to be at a preliminary stage, it may show that Russia and North Korea are looking toward a trading future beyond sanctions and military tensions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...th-korea-literally/ar-BBKDjmE?ocid=spartandhp

What will the be trading?

I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.

US Dollar1 USD = 899.494 KPW
↔
North Korean Won1 KPW = 0.00111174 USD

http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=KPW

Apparently the money is not worth the paper it is printed on. So what trade will they do?
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Even if Russia had gotten all the ore owned by Uranium One shipped to Russia, instead of, you know, none of it, it wouldn't raise their levels of uranium supplies by more than a fraction.

I'm guessing N. Korea will ship out counterfeit U.S. dollars in exchange for Russian oil.
 
EatTheRich said:
Even if Russia had gotten all the ore owned by Uranium One shipped to Russia, instead of, you know, none of it, it wouldn't raise their levels of uranium supplies by more than a fraction.

I'm guessing N. Korea will ship out counterfeit U.S. dollars in exchange for Russian oil.
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No I don't and after your post I still don't.


Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

This much we do know. How much of a fraction did they get and how many nukes can you build that much uranium? Is one too many?
 
Drumcollie said:
No I don't and after your post I still don't.


Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

This much we do know. How much of a fraction did they get and how many nukes can you build that much uranium? Is one too many?
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Well, what they actually got was zero. The only uranium that left the country went to long-time clients of Uranium One in Canada. The Uranium One acquisition was about Russia making money, not about Russia (which exports weapons-grade uranium, which it has in excess, to the U.S.) getting bomb-making materials.
 
Drumcollie said:
I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.
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There are a few layers of wrong there, so let me dig through them for you:

(1) Clinton didn't sell any uranium to the Russians. Clinton had no involvement with Russia and uranium at all. What you're probably thinking of is when the State Department, without personal involvement of Clinton, was one of a long list of independent reviewers (past and present) that looked at a foreign investment in the US and unanimously decided there was no problem with it. Particularly, a Canadian company with a Russian parent corporation holds some leases to mines in the US. The State Department's representative on the committee that reviewed the arrangement decided there was no problem with it from a diplomatic perspective. There were also eight other cabinet members, including the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce and the US Trade Representative, reviewing it from an economic perspective, the Secretary of Defense and the head of Homeland Security reviewing it from a national security perspective, and the Secretary of Energy and the director of the Office of Science and Technology reviewing it from an energy security and science perspective, respectively. Each looked at the deal from their own perspective and EVERY ONE OF THEM saw no problem with it. Others involved in the review included the Director of National Intelligence, the head of the OMB, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Assistants to the President for National Security Affairs, Economic Policy, and Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism. They unanimously saw no reason to interfere with that deal. In addition, the Trump administration and the Congress have tacitly agreed with that judgement, by doing nothing to interfere with those leases in the years since, even though they each have the power to do so if they want.

(2) The uranium leases in question do not come with export rights. Any export of the uranium from the US is subject to review. There's no evidence even a gram of the uranium was ever moved to Russia -- and it would be odd if they even tried to import it, since they neighbor the world's biggest uranium exporter, which is friendly with the Kremlin, so they have a plentiful source right next door.

(3) If Russia wanted to move uranium to North Korea, it wouldn't have to get it from the US. Russia has its own mines and neighboring Kazakhstan has huge amounts of uranium. Moreover, North Korea has its own uranium mines with deposits of around 4 million tons. Uranium isn't a problem for them. The bottleneck for them is turning uranium into weapons-grade material, either through uranium enrichment or through turning it into plutonium in reactors.

(4) What nuclear parts, specifically, do you think North Korea will trade with? Wouldn't those parts be more valuable to North Korea than raw uranium?
 
EatTheRich said:
Well, what they actually got was zero. The only uranium that left the country went to long-time clients of Uranium One in Canada. The Uranium One acquisition was about Russia making money, not about Russia (which exports weapons-grade uranium, which it has in excess, to the U.S.) getting bomb-making materials.
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It's fascinating how Fox News has managed to push this notion that Russia wanted our uranium for weapons, when there isn't an expert in the world who believes that.
 
Drumcollie said:
North Korea shares a border with three countries — South Korea, China and Russia.

The one with Russia is just 11 miles, following the Tumen River and its estuary in the far northeast. There is one lone crossing, dubbed the “Friendship Bridge.” It opened in 1959 and offers the two nations a fairly basic rail connection. This week, amid a period of relative calm on the oft-tense Korean Peninsula, Russian representatives traveled to North Korea to discuss an idea: They should open another bridge.

Though the planning appears to be at a preliminary stage, it may show that Russia and North Korea are looking toward a trading future beyond sanctions and military tensions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...th-korea-literally/ar-BBKDjmE?ocid=spartandhp

What will the be trading?

I am guessing the uranium ore that Hillary sold to the Russians, and since the NOKO's probably don't have any real currency they will trade with nuclear parts they got from Bill Clinton.

US Dollar1 USD = 899.494 KPW
↔
North Korean Won1 KPW = 0.00111174 USD

http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=KPW

Apparently the money is not worth the paper it is printed on. So what trade will they do?
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The bridge is for military access. The Russians would use it to send troops.
 
resident_evil said:
My reasons that they do.

1) https://www.politicaljack.com/threa...idge-to-north-korea-wapo.109301/#post-2095478

2) https://www.politicaljack.com/threa...idge-to-north-korea-wapo.109301/#post-2095476

What are your reasons that they don't?
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You seem to have posted the wrong links. Did you even read them? For example, are you aware that the link to article on The Hill makes it clear that the flow of uranium goes the opposite way: that the US imported 14% of its uranium from Russia? Give it a read sometime.
 
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