{"id":25449,"date":"2017-09-10T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25449"},"modified":"2017-09-10T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T16:14:22","slug":"confirmed-north-korea-has-enough-oil-to-survive-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25449","title":{"rendered":"CONFIRMED: North Korea has enough oil to survive embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CONFIRMED: North Korea has enough oil to survive embargo<\/a><\/h3>\n

While a full scale oil embargo against North Korea is unlikely, the reality is that North Korea would be able to survive such a measure with comparative ease.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The United States has recently suggested a global oil embargo against North Korea, something both China and Russia oppose. The DPRK\u2019s neighbours to the north support UN sanctions against Pyongyang, but have firmly opposed unilateral US sanctions against North Korea.<\/p>\n

Russia and China have made a commitment never to support sanctions against Pyongyang which could negatively impact on the civilian population of their neighbour and this would almost certainly include a full-scale oil embargo.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, Russia\u2019s plan to de-escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula is to develop trilateral economic initiatives linking South and North Korea<\/a> to Russia. Given the realities on the peninsula, Russia\u2019s \u2018carrot\u2019 is seen as preferable on both sides of the 38th parallel to Washington\u2019s increasingly bellicose \u2018stick\u2019.<\/p>\n

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But even if Donald Trump was somehow able to convince the world to engage in an oil embargo against North Korea, North Korea would appear to have enough domestic oil reserves to make up for the loss of imports.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In addition to large reserves of domestic coal and the increased reliance on green energy in the form of hydroelectric power\u00a0<\/a>, North Korea\u2019s domestic oil reserves are likely far greater than previous conservative estimates have indicated.<\/p>\n

Even prior to the new threat of sanctions, North Korea has been increasingly self-sufficient in beginning to tap its still largely unused oil reserves.<\/p>\n

In 2015, when relations between the DPRK and the rest of the world were somewhat better than they are at present, independent oil exploration expert Michael Rego investigated North Korea\u2019s oil potential.<\/p>\n

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CONFIRMED: North Korea has enough oil to survive embargo While a full scale oil embargo against North Korea is unlikely, the reality is that North Korea would be able to survive such a measure with comparative ease. The United States has recently suggested a global oil embargo against North Korea, something both China and Russia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[15942,7844,8313,2006,9173,1810,11527,14514,827,862],"class_list":["post-25449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-adam-garrie","tag-donald-trump","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea","tag-oil-embargo","tag-oil-reserves","tag-pyongyang","tag-the-duran","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25450,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25449\/revisions\/25450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}