MTd2 wrote: With a huge quantity of energy available, they could become totally self sufficient within a few years. They could start by providing energy to mining operations. So, the first sign of that would be that instead of NK being a black hole seeing from space at night, there would be a few bright stars around the mountain ranges.
I doubt the regime could tolerate the internal political and economic side effects of that. There’s more involved, of course; I saw a study recently which indicated that compared to SK residents, NKers were stunted physically, mentally, and emotionally, from nutritional and other lacks.
