North Korea is a very rich country, while North Koreans are a very poor people because of ...

Surprisingly, North Korea is not only armed to the teeth, but it is also a rich country. Very rich.

A wealth that goes beyond images from that faraway country of the world, and outside the world, comes and shows us as an extremely poor country whose population is constantly suffering from shortages of all kinds. Images and shortages remain true, but they have nothing to do with the true wealth of the country.

Yes, because, while trying to forget, North Korea is one of the richest mineral regions on the planet.

Hidden in the Korean mountains are tons of gold, silver, histen, zing, vanadium, titan, in which no one has access at the moment.

Riches that have not been properly exploited and made real, both sides of the Korean medal, since North Korea is a poor and rich country at the same time.

Nobody, until now, knows exactly the amount of Korean mining assets. Some estimates made by South Korea's mining institutions vary from weighted numbers of $600 billion (U.S.) to the most optimistic of 10,000 billion.

According to “The Economist”, if these predictions were true, and if, in a science-political scenario, they would ever go to a reunion of Korea, the new country that was to be born would be a superpower, rich in natural resources, with the advantages of South Korean technology and the nuclear arsenal of Kim Jong Un.

Today, however, it is not a union, and the facts say something else: that North Korea is as rich as it is in the face of all its assets. That, for two reasons. The first is that the country has neither the skills, tools, expertise nor technology for their extraction, nor does it pay a technological setback, which is largely the result of the weapons regime's passion, which since 1990 has made any funding and research project aimed at making today's nuclear superpower Korea.

The second reason is an indirect consequence of the first, and it relates to the arms race: even if Korea was able to extract its resources, it would not know who toy it sold, as it is subject to trade sanctions from countries around the world.

The only real business partner in North Korea is China (and to some extent Canada, Russia and Egypt), which absorbs nearly 90 percent of North Korean traphiles and that, more than anyone could be interested in having access to Peniani's resources, even to justify the 10 billion spent, not later than 2015, to build a railway near the border with North Korea and, which today, is not used properly, or, as Beijing would like. / Business Insider World.al