Bigger question
Article in Nature hopes that peace and unification will open more avenues for research in the North.

Probably so, and probably a good thing.

Better question: Why don't we see any articles hoping for more BUSINESS with North Korea? Business and industry are the key to a decent life for ordinary people. The South has been working along this line forever, constantly trying to open cross-border business using Northern labor. The effort has been tricky because the regime in the North has always been 'notional', sometimes slightly opening the door and then slamming it shut for no apparent reason.

Now ask the same question about other 'forbidden' countries. USA STRONG corporations are NOT seeking to do business with any of those countries. We used to have tremendous links with Cuba and important ties with Persia. Corporations are happy to leave those countries closed.

And the same question about our wars. Are any of our wars designed to gain more resources or more customers or more employees? NO. Our wars do the EXACT OPPOSITE. Our wars DESTROY all resources and businesses in the countries we attack, and this COMMERCIAL destruction is the MAIN PURPOSE.

The Left constantly and stupidly gets this point exactly backwards. No blood for oil??? We never shed blood to get oil. We shed blood to HALT oil production, which is exactly what the Left claims to want. "Global warming" and all that shit.

USA STRONG corporations are debtist, not capitalist. Everything we do is explicitly designed to END COMMERCE. Kill production, kill employees, kill profits. Our wars, like our corporate activities, are LBOs.

Why are so many countries gravitating toward Russia and China? Because Russia and China are real capitalists. Their businesses want more products, more profits, more employees. They make deals to get resources, and then help the poor country to develop its resource using its own people. And that's exactly what poor countries in Africa and Asia NEED. More people working and making money. More supply-chain expansion for the main factories, more groceries and barbers and housing construction for the people employed in the main factories.

Is this offshoring? Yes. But it's not the same as modern USA offshoring. When offshoring ADDS capacity without destroying jobs in the home country (as we mostly did before 1975) it's a good thing for both countries. When offshoring MOVES the jobs away from the home country, it's bad for the home country.

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