Just one week ago we made peace with NK. (Seems much longer huh?) Since then we have been saturated with anything and everything to make us take our mind off of it. You know why? It's because it was a much bigger deal than you could have imagined.

It's a giant step towards shaping and securing our future as THE super power.


How? Because of these rare earth minerals most of which you have never heard of:
neodymium
ytterbium
erbium
thulium
holmium
praseodymium
cerium

What are those? The key component in fiber lasers. Fiber lasers are what the lasers we now use on our navy vessels as offensive weapons instead of just tracking/aiming devices are made of.

By 2021 they are set to be installed on fighter jets and attack helicopters. We already have working portable models and in the case of attack helicopters their equally defensive and offensive. They can shoot down shoulder fired and ground to air missile as well as air to air.
[link to spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org (secure)]


This is the tech that will make real world Laser rifles and long range laser canons for the military. Replacing much of our current ballistic tech. It's also what our primary weapons in space will be with the space force, only on a much bigger scale.

We're not done though. There are more rare earth elements besides those that are used for all our future and current modern tech like Lanthanum:
There is about 10 pounds of this stuff in every hybrid car. Ever hear of Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries? That's the kind of batteries in hybrid cars and all the advanced batteries being used now.
Lanthanum is the metal in the word 'Nickel-Metal Hydride' batteries.

The list of the different kinds is long and these rare earth elements are what our tech from flat screen TV's, the new micro processors, wireless ear buds, medical tech to lasers is made made from.

In other words, the future is made from rare earth minerals.

What's that have to do with North Korea?
They are sitting on 7-10 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH of un-mined rare earth minerals.

This is the new oil. Except if we nuke NK or turn it into a war zone for 50 Years then we can't mine it.
Reference: [link to new.euro-med.dk (secure)]

So what does Trump do? He makes peace instead and makes sure he's the one to do it, then shortly after announces the creation of the US Space Force. That wasn't a coincidence...

He just secured the future resources needed to create a space force and all the new tech the world is going to run on. It's likely going to be a cheap source as well, this is North Korea we are talking about. Wages and cost of living are not exactly high there.

And that's that. North Koreas sudden importance explained.

Now it's back to business as usual as the US and China carve out pieces of NK to mine, but now it will be business and political deals instead of hostile takeover with military force.