Really wish global economies didn’t compete violently but worked together instead.

@MeikaiX

4 ай бұрын

You're starting to sound like a liberal communist globalist 😂 (Sarcasm)

@Hirohitorunguard

4 ай бұрын

That'd be quite uncapitalistic of em, we wouldn't want that would we?

@490o

4 ай бұрын

But that would be *gasp* SOCIALISM

@mrptr9013

4 ай бұрын

A socialist in this channel? Are you lost Young one?

@finn8518

4 ай бұрын

@@earthalien2584because countries are supposed to benefit from each others prosperity, not each others weakness.

Imagine if the DPRK exported these minerals to the sanctioned world.

@lapanthanim

4 ай бұрын

That would be potentially amazing, but they'd have to go through some difficult hoops to get things transported. Maybe they could make it a requirement for dealing with them for CMs, if they play their cards right.

@kyarden7971

4 ай бұрын

So to war-mongering and oligarchic Russia, to child and gay-murdering and women apartheid Iran, to aggressive and impoverished Venezuela? Hopefully one day the people of these three countries will finally be free.

@ThatBasedGuy

4 ай бұрын

By “sanctioned world” you mean fellow communist hellholes which have no industries to use these minerals for?

@ligmabalzack3480

4 ай бұрын

Can't control them if you educate them ​@@ludlowaloysius

@waspwrap1235

4 ай бұрын

@@ludlowaloysiusNorth Korea has a median daily caloric intake of 2100 cal, and is ranked on the better half of countries in Asia regarding education

At 0:59 when you say "sitting on some of the largest rare-earth deposits in the world is a one-way ticket to incredible wealth." it's important to clarify that this wealth can only be used to serve the people in a socialist country. Africa and Latin America are incredibly rich in natural resources, but the western vultures would never allow that money to be used in benefit of the population of those countries.

@shenzhong2942

4 ай бұрын

i’m constipated, i haven’t shat myself in 3 days

@Carltoncurtis1

4 ай бұрын

Hey op, read a little wider about human history.

@riztiz

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-yh1nm1vy3iRead about how the US intelligence and US companies helped fascist dictatorships in South America to privatise all natural resources. France still maintains neo-colonies in Western Africa. France controls their currency and thus controls all social infrastructure projects.

@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729

4 ай бұрын

Ironically, if North Korea's dictatorship falls its more likely to end up either under South Korean or Chinese hegemony. The North Koreans will always lose. Their only hope is if the Kim family reform the system themselves ala tsar Alex II. But they all look like imbeciles.

@zejalt8608

4 ай бұрын

@@Carltoncurtis1what do you mean?

Time for the U.S. empire to "liberate" the DPRK people of their minerals. sigh.

@Moses_VII

4 ай бұрын

You think NK ain't prepared?

@MysteryFaceX

4 ай бұрын

​@@Moses_VIIDoesn't mean US won't try.

@aniemgamaou6591

4 ай бұрын

It's not easy but it must be than😮‍💨

@mna7308

4 ай бұрын

😂😂they got nuclear 😂😂😂

@firelordOzai3

4 ай бұрын

That’s the one country America cannotliberate

Two videos on JT's channels in one day? It must be Christmas!

@MeikaiX

4 ай бұрын

It happens a lot lol

@mega_gamer93

4 ай бұрын

they have the same upload schedule

It's time to move on from capitalism

@AntonioGarmsci

4 күн бұрын

Capitalism is the fucking crisis!!! Resource Based Economy, the only alterative.

I am not religious, and yet I pray for reunification. I know it isn't popular among South Korean youth to talk about, but their country was divided in living memory. It deserves to be whole.

@waspwrap1235

4 ай бұрын

Kind of hard to do that when after independence, your country voted for a socialist government causing the United States to invade and sponsor a fascist dictatorship out of Seoul and where even in the modern day, North Korea continues to offer all of their nuclear weapons to the United States in exchange for peace but the USA still refuses

@zongyewang3601

4 ай бұрын

Who unify who though?

@Gueroizquierda

4 ай бұрын

Coin toss

@timmy-wj2hc

4 ай бұрын

As long as the US empire remains, that will be impossible for now.

@Xind0898

4 ай бұрын

weird to say this under a video talking about how rich in mineral the north is.

It’s so hard to get reliable info about North Korea thanks for the video.

@FlaviusRed23

22 күн бұрын

We know Korea from North Korea defectors

@Arbeiter2

14 күн бұрын

@@FlaviusRed23 like the ones paid by the south Korean government to exaggerate and lie about their experience?

Seems like DPRK is getting freedom and democracy very soon

@aaronblain6377

4 ай бұрын

The US has been trying to finish them off for 70 years, but it's becoming increasingly clear that ship has sailed.

@Rafael-lc6yr

4 ай бұрын

nah, they have nukes and missiles capable of reaching amerika

@energeticstunts993

4 ай бұрын

just a question and perhaps the more informed comrades can answer. Obviously, my heart goes out to support all socialist projects around the world but how should we socialists deal with countries, who while upholding socialism (like the DPRK) still objectively hurt human rights regardless. I'm fully aware that the US is much worse in these regards but I'm not trying to compare. What I'm concerned with is the punishment for leaving the country, surveillance and the punishment for criticising the government. Is it really possible to support a socialist project if it objectively represses its people from criticising the state? Just a question.

@shuma3401

4 ай бұрын

​@@energeticstunts993 How can we verify the truthfulness of these claims? To our knowledge, none of us have set foot in DPRK.

@energeticstunts993

4 ай бұрын

@@shuma3401 we haven't set a foot into Palestine and yet we know what's going on there. I think it's very easy as specialists to try to defend socialist countries to the very core, but we shouldn't forget that upholding human rights is also an utmost important thing for socialists to do

As long as capital remains the dominant global driver, shit’s fucked. Excellent closer.

That camera flip zooming out thing felt so Johnny Harris-y. Only thing that brings neoliberals any credibility: rolling out maps with exaggerated sound effects effects and old projector sounds. Excellent video as always, Deprogram fellas

ehhh, I don't know. I'm having second thoughts.

To be fair if North Korea could have their sanctions lifted and the government be able to export the minerals the living standards of the citizens could dramatically improve

@anthonyenriquez6309

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps but it means the insane Kim family will have more to play with. Which could be really bad for the rest of the world

@BeautifulEarthJa

4 ай бұрын

Lol. You mean a few billionaires would be created...

@DreamsOfRyleh

4 ай бұрын

Their standard of living was garbage in the 1980s when supported by the USSR, they had a famine as soon as said support ended, then earned a sanction regime by building nukes. I'm not sure why you have confidence in their government's ability to take care of the people.

@will823

4 ай бұрын

@BeautifulEarthJa fair point

@electric6877

3 ай бұрын

@@BeautifulEarthJait’s not possible in the DPRK because ownership is collective and not private

If anyone wants to know more about the horrific details of Korea War, The Dispatches podcast on BreakThrough News did a fantastic episode a year ago titled "North Korea Truth and Lies"

@BenjaminWalburn

4 ай бұрын

Blowback has an excellent season dedicated to the Korean war as well.

Slight nitpick: As of recently, North Korea has started removing all mentions of reunification from official documents and is preparing to tear down the reunification monument. I take it as a sign that Kim Jong Un is giving up all hopes for reunification.

@waspwrap1235

4 ай бұрын

Kind of hard to reunify when you offer to give up all of your nuclear weapons in exchange for peace to the largest military power, but they still refuse

@Burnside128

4 ай бұрын

I thought they were giving up on peaceful unification, specifically

@maoistgonzaloitepolpotist7743

4 ай бұрын

Also the constitution is being altered to saying that the DPRK has the "right" to annex the ROK.

@legendaryblood1937

4 ай бұрын

Its not Kim tho lol. Workers Party of Korea made the decision

@jojoohyeah4761

4 ай бұрын

Hope a war doesn’t happen soon

"Jesus Christ Marie! They're Minerals!"

@redlion45

4 ай бұрын

Damnit I said the same thing😂

This was an insightful video. Thanks JT

0:08 DPRK uses McCune-Reischauer romanisation system. The system shown in the video is Revised Romanisation, which used only in Republic of Korea. And it should be read as Chongju

Fantastic video. I'm so glad this topic is getting more coverage.

I love these analysis videos. I hope you can keep making them. This one was very informative and well done. Thanks!

Is DPRK Asian Wakanda ? 😂

I always saw the talk of minerals as envy rather than fear. Remember when the United States tried to buy Greenland for “the minerals”?

@projectpitchfork860

4 ай бұрын

That was propably more so as a base for nuclear missiles against russia.

@Naturewalkingthrough

4 ай бұрын

@@projectpitchfork860 I remember that being a reason too. On another note the “The minerals must flow” -Joe Biden.

@wyattthewallaby7018

4 ай бұрын

@@Naturewalkingthroughthe minerals must flow biden

@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin

4 ай бұрын

@@Naturewalkingthrough Can't wait for the 3000 year God-Emperor to synthesize Juche and Marxism-Leninism-(Maoism) and force humanity down the -shining- Golden Path, frfr. Jokes aside, Frank Herbert, for all his problems, really nailed it in so many ways...it's always about imperial resource extraction.

@penguinpingu3807

4 ай бұрын

It's also fear because the DPRK and PRC has better relationships. In theory if the amount of minerals are proven to be real. In theory, the DPRK can be prosperous. The PRC would probably be the biggest buyer and investor. Giving China a bigger advantage.

It is insane on why China state don't invest more into the DPRK. They make tons of compromise with Capital economic country, but less compromise with a Social economic country.

@atari109

4 ай бұрын

It's because North Korea is small and lacks other potential trading partners. Why give them a fair deal when they can't go anywhere else?

@Huy-G-Le

4 ай бұрын

@@atari109 You ever see those far aways regions in China? The very rural mountains and desert region? Gave the Chinese private sectors 50 years, and they refuses to build manufacturing, processing or housing infrastructures because it isn't profitable. Meanwhile the Chinese state, thanks to the magic of nationalization a and thus process its own abundance funding for domestic investment. The state builds or hires private corps to builds such infrastructures, such as proper road, high way, continental rail ways, literally massive water pipes that transfers excess water to desert regions, since 1950. The difference between an investment from the private sectors is the actions incentive being for profits. When the State invest, and this doesn't have to be a Socialist state, it will invests to provides, to produces, and none for the incentives of for profits, that is the difference. Most of modern China is build up by the state of state funds, building ups regions that are unprofitable by domestic and foreign private interest to invest in, thus the state invest in those regions to provides for the people from those regions. You would be suprises to knows how much of Xinjiang are builds from public's funds. Also DPRK aren't small, look for "Real Map Size" websites, even the Sahara actual sizes is equal to the Unified States or Mercia.

@Alexandra-tv4kx

4 ай бұрын

Simple reason: if they work with DPRK too much, they run the risk of devastating sanctions from the west. Many companies/countries are wary of working with countries under US sanctions such as Iran or Cuba or Venezuela for the same reasons. Lebanon can't even import oil from Iran and they have electricity outages every day. If they do, US will hurt them.

@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435

4 ай бұрын

Because of the risk of getting secondary sanctions, China couldn't bother dealing with the significant geopolitical ramification from the already controversial notion of just a normalized bilateral relation with DPRK, in the common sense of things. That's why both sides appeared to quietly agree to maintain the nature of their cooperation as ambiguous as possible or else, it's practically anticipating a political suicide. Furthermore, this "backdoor" diplomatic approach still benefits DPRK in the long term because although the country wouldn't immediately receive direct material support from China to further revitalize its economic capacity in the short term, DPRK could still have the opportunity to gradually build its sovereign and socialistic economic autarky because China continues to maintain strategic cooperation on R&D, education and tech transfer with DPRK (alongside Russia). This is why if you pay attention to the primary source news reports on DPRK, you'll find that the country has been on an infrastructure building spree in the past few years incl. rebuilding, renovation and revitalization of infrastructure in the strategic industrial and other areas of the economy.

@eragongun3491

4 ай бұрын

​@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435good answer comrade.

Korea is indeed an interesting subject. Good video, congrats.

I miss the news videos but these video are fantastic. Have you thought about doing shorts of odd bits of important news? It may help algorithm potentially :)

@recmuralartcommission1993

4 ай бұрын

I think they now do both

@Cycrum

4 ай бұрын

Making shorts for news would be very smart imo

Great video, as always.

What an awesome production, folks. Interesting topic.

Keep this content coming! 🤜🤛

AMAZING CONTENT! Keep it coming mate

I love the editing on this.

Thank you so much for making videos about stuff like this!

omg long first thought video + a second thought video? what a treat this weekend

great episode, actually explains a lot of things I've been wondering about

Part of a paper I published talked about this. Glad some others are bringing this up.

Yay another upload!!! 🎉

Western cognitive dissonance in the comments section 📈

@thecrimsonviscount5689

4 ай бұрын

Lmao

I like leftist content as much as the next broseph, but I know a lot of South Koreans who'd be pretty pissed to hear you dismiss their entire country as a vassal state. And however much one (justifiably) dislikes the imperial core, you aren't doing anyone any favors by romanticising the opposition just BECAUSE it's the opposition.

@Dfgdf91

3 ай бұрын

South Korea is a vassal state lol

@DreamsOfRyleh

3 ай бұрын

If your definition of "Vassal state" is "the US was involved in its creation", Germany, the Phillipines and Japan are vassals. So is China, which needed US help to expel the Japanese. So is France and Russia, which would have been German without US material support. It's a nonsense position that assumes influence is the same as control. But beyond that: South Koreans want unification, but don't want to live in an authoritarian communist state. Your comments (and this video) are JUST shy of suggesting that South Korea is some sort of aberration that came about when the US intervened and prevented natural history from playing out. It ignores the fact that the north Korean government is despotic and incompetent, and South Koreans genuinely dislike it

@commenterthe3rd

18 күн бұрын

the reason why south korea exists is because america intervened in the korean revolution and seperated the country in half purging all the communists and socialists out of south korea their whole economy is dominated by samsung and people are overworked to near death because nothing can stop samsung from overworking their workers for more profits they dominate the whole economy after all

We got a Patreon video, a Live Stream, and a First thought video. Blessed

Love the thumbnail lol

This is proper marxist content, keep it up!

Banger video. 🎉

Missed this when it first dropped, this is so good.

Wonderful video will send this to my reactionary friend

@oort2108

4 ай бұрын

Let us know his reaction

who would have thought?

Damn they really got that johnny harris editing style down to the letter

I never knew REE were not recyclable. I am VERY perplexed as to why! I believe the ability to recycle them should be a research priority!

Imagine a unified Korean Peninsula, it would be an economic and technological giant three times the population of Taiwan, especially a world-class semiconductor industry. It also has nuclear weapons, ICBMs, fifth-gen fighter jets, an enormous shipbuilding industry that can compete with China, and a stockpile and production capacity of artillery firepower at least an order of magnitude higher than all NATO nations combined.

You are wrong about one thing, there was already a government in Korea before the USA and the Soviets came. The Soviets left it alone for the most part with the Korean government even purging more pro soviet officials while the USA completely destroyed the government in their occupied area of Korea.

Production value is excellent, really great video!

Has First Thought stopped uploading news? Is JT only focusing on video essays in First Thought?? 🤔🤔

@MechanicalRabbits

4 ай бұрын

They announced they were going to switch focus since they didn't have enough views to justify the work it took to put out three videos a week. It's a real shame since I really liked their news coverage.

@fnutarf2085

4 ай бұрын

@@MechanicalRabbits I hope the'll still do the news, even if it means we'll have to wait longer between the videos

@kyarden7971

4 ай бұрын

@@MechanicalRabbitsWell no one cared about their hypocritical ‘socialist’ news hence no one cared to watch.

@naughtiusmaximus789

4 ай бұрын

@@MechanicalRabbits Where and when did they announce this? I would also love it if they still continued the news even if it's a weekly thing.

Respect to the DPRK and I hope that the west never sees a gram of those minerals

@sawyerstudio

4 ай бұрын

💯

@projectpitchfork860

4 ай бұрын

At least not by exploitative methods. You can still trade fairly with them.

@notamurderer6226

4 ай бұрын

So you respect a country where it’s citizens have no rights and can’t leave

@georgekostaras

4 ай бұрын

@@notamurderer6226 I respect a country defending their sovereignty from a hostile superpower that killed twenty percent of their citizens in the 1950's. the USA today would gladly turn DPRK into another Iraq or Afghanistan.

@deretti347

4 ай бұрын

what about the resolution 2371 that prevents them from working outside? If they can't leave anyway why they need to sanction it?@rderer6226

Did something with the channel change? what happened to the news stuff?

@oort2108

4 ай бұрын

They have a community post about it

@azzthund1500

4 ай бұрын

@@oort2108 ah ty

Amazing work, this is a breath of fresh air and probably the first informative high-quality video on the DPRK from a Marxist perspective.

Nice.

Can someone explain me what the number of designations mean in the graphs at 4:04?

Thanks for the video

“They’re minerals” lol nice reference

Hey, I still really like your videos. But whats the difference between first thought and second thought now?

Rare earths are typically grouped into light, medium, and heavy. Light are the most common and the cheapest. Heaviest are rarest and most expensive. The most abundant of the LREEs, cerium is actually more abundant than copper. Metallurgically, they're quite complex to process. Particularly when it comes to separating them - seventeen elements with pretty similar chemistry can require hundreds of stages of solvent extraction to separate. I could see a scenario in which a mineral concentrate or a mixed REE hydroxide product is sent to refineries in China for further processing. The Chinese do have a lot of experience with those processes. There is the radiation hazard as well, almost all REE ores contain thorium and lesser amounts of uranium. The decay products of Th-232 and U-238/U-235 start partitioning and concentrating in different streams of the process during the separation if they're not removed earlier (a colleague of mine did his PhD on removing Th/U from REE process liquors).

@bullydungeon9631

4 ай бұрын

What a cool comment, thanks for sharing

If anybody is interested: I made a historical documentary about North Korea titled "A peoples History of the DPRK" if anyone here is interested in a deep dive on the subject. Its up on my channel.

@americancommunist6076

4 ай бұрын

lol i just came from that wonderful video!

@sentientnatalie

4 ай бұрын

Banger video!

@tamunotamuno3564

4 ай бұрын

yeah, y'all should watch it. Totally changed my perspective on NK

Commenting to help you in the algorithm

im still picking the magnetite ore out of my nose since leaving ernest henry mine in 2012

Clean with the Johnny Harris photo reel cuts 😂😂

JT, i like you, i like your content, and i appreciate how you inform me on various topics, however, i would like to ask, do you ever show both sides of the coin? i realize that your videos are typically focused and want to maintain brevity, but whenever you talk about the USSR, China, and the DPRK, i feel like the things you don't mention about them implies that you think they are perfect and do no wrong themselves, that America is the only country doing bad things in the world. although based off of the kinds of videos you make, i would not jump to claim you are a "tankie" but i at least want to know your more nuanced analysis of these countries.

@brandonmorel2658

4 ай бұрын

JT is a Marxist Leninist, nothing else. He has stated he supports and associates with individuals and organizations that support *critically* the AES. Tankie is a thought terminating slur that does not in any way portray accurately an ideological and material standpoint.

@nighteule

3 ай бұрын

JT has criticized the USSR, China, and DPRK many times, especially on the podcast

@Utomneian

3 ай бұрын

@@nighteule ah okays, i haven't tried to get into their podcast yet, i keep bouncing between podcasts every few months, to see who engages me the most, but i suppose i can give theirs a try. thank you :)

@nighteule

3 ай бұрын

@@UtomneianYes, on this topic I recommend one of the earlier ones. The title was something like "self-crit"

@Utomneian

3 ай бұрын

@@nighteule thanks again

Songun Salute!

Nice video. I would add that (from the viewpoint of US empire) the DPRK plays a small role in the "first-island chain" containment analysis: China getting access to the small port of Chongjin at the Japanese sea as well as recently upgraded access to Russia's Vladivostok port... In response there are voices in the US military establishment urging greater military presence on Hokkaido to keep the Japanese sea 'contained'.

They also have Uranium, although the reserves is very small its what they use to build nukes, it cannot be used to build nuclear powerplants because sadly the resource is limited.

What is the DPRK's policy on foreign investment?

Always fun to see Biden ads on leftist KZread videos. Great use of your advertising budget, Genocide Joe!

All things are possible through Juche

@PLNatbolRevolutionary

4 ай бұрын

So ture

@redfront6707

4 ай бұрын

Manse!

@LuizHenrique9406

4 ай бұрын

Even resurrecting the dead

Unfortunately for pretty much the entirety the history of the Korean Peninsula we've seen it divided and united many times. On top of that due to where it is positioned other nations will always try to influence it. For pretty much all of its history China has sought a great level of influence over the Peninsula and was a tribute state to China. Mongol Empire and Yuan Dynasty ruled over it and the Japanese would attempt to invade it multiple times and eventually rule over it for a period of time. Unfortunate the geographic reality of the Peninsula is that it is located in a neighborhood thats always had a lot going on and its neighbors will attempt to exert some level of control over it rather that be China, Russia, Japan, and the US etc.

more dprk videos on SecondThought too please 👏👏 but beware the KZread shadowban hammer

@kiltedcripple

4 ай бұрын

If you live in fear of the hammer, the hammer has already won.

"I always knew that they had something hidden in them Mountains up there."

Imagine if the north Koreans were known for telling the truth.

they're minerals, marie!

You should start making more shorts.

nice video but minor correction, anthracite is a kind of coal

Great video!

if true, we might see america defending its freedom in korean penninsula in a moment

7:30 Actually kim jong un abandoned the goal of a unified korea recently

@lapanthanim

4 ай бұрын

I was also surprised that wasn't mentioned. But JT did say "the people" in the video, as opposed to governmental positions. Sadly, I've seen it reported that younger people in South Korea are (perhaps unsurprisingly) becoming alienated from this goal, though.

@ThatBasedGuy

4 ай бұрын

According to Kim the trustworthy himself?

@americancommunist6076

4 ай бұрын

no he did not, he abandoned unification through peaceful means. The DPRK has tried all options and found only revolution will free the south from the USA.

Seems like the US is finally considering if it's worth the risk of taking democracy to the DPRK

Will this much even matter once the Wyoming mine gets going(2.34 billion metric tons)? I swear that mine will crash soooo many rare earth metal prices.

Anybody watching after the recent news from Bolivia?

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Video did not show up in my subscription box even tho I am subscribed.

I'm assuming recording for this happened before the announcement and you simply missed it in the edit, but North Korea has officially renounced reunification. They no longer seek unity with the South.

This is so ridiculous. There is no such thing as “critical minerals” (except phosphorus in biology), and even if there was minerals are more or less homogenously distributed over the globe (no country had any monopoly on lithium, gold, etc), and even if North Korea had a monopoly they don’t have the know-how, expertise and capital to get it out of the ground.

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Kinda wierd that this video is on First Thought as opposed to Second Thought

1:16 Their*

@raulgarcia8627

4 ай бұрын

Nope. It's a breaking bad reference

At 1:16, “*their minerals” I think is what you meant?

@user-qi6pv9jh7o

4 ай бұрын

[Br]eaking [Ba]d reference

@alial-mumin2260

4 ай бұрын

@@user-qi6pv9jh7oomg lol, that’s funny u think it was intentional? or just a great excuse he could use lol

@chillyoil528

4 ай бұрын

​@@alial-mumin2260 it's intentional

1:16 breaking bad reference??

Thats enough for the US to try give some "freedom"

👍🖤

I understand the tactic described by at 4:05, but I'm curious about the source or interpretation. Obviously someone in fear of assault would obtain defenses, but I wonder about the responsibility for these actions. The DPRK states that the joint operation training/parades are beligerent and antagonistic, but hardly seem different from the similar tests, exercises, and incidents on the other side - it could be argued the DPRK isn't as much in danger of invasion as they are a danger to their neighbors. Ignoring this subjective interpretation, the government invests more money in defense than in agriculture/food production, intentionally leaving a deficit. Much like the US, people are starving, while the military budget continues to grow. Is this an ugly tactic, callous disregard, mismanagement, or some combination where the blame is not on one side?

Congratulations to China! Imagine the sleepsless nights the Wall Street execs have right now 😂

Love and support to the DPRK

I'm confused what the title means. You basically just say the West wants to destabilize NK to obtain its minerals for strategic reasons, but maybe only for geopolitical reasons.

China going to go on field day with this.

I like rocks. Rocks are nice and cool. Rocks are interesting