The undeniable grace by the US to be offering one cease fire after another in exchange for free passage of tankers.

2027 budget is already tapped on by emergency powers, and unplanned debt increase is also in the oven. Unsustainable subsidized war and oil industries can only hope for an enhanced monopoly. Will it be provided?

Hard times are here and even harder will come.

#Venezuela #Cuba #DPRK #Iran #Lebanon #Donbas #Yemen #Gaza

@QudsNen

33 years ago, North Korea became the first country to threaten withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The world panicked. Pyongyang took notes — and now has six nuclear tests to its name.
☢️ #DPRK #NuclearProliferation #NorthKorea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_North_Korean_nuclear_program

International relations in late capitalism have two modes

- Surrender

- Face the wrath of the Global Capitalist Western Alliance army, the US,

The western banking federation needs no independent states, they need local administrators to act on their command. Any resistance to this trend will mean bombs against infrastructure, blockade of accessing any market/exchange, abduction and execution of political actors advocating for autonomy/independence

#Venezuela #Iran #Yemen #DPRK #Russia #China #India #Cuba

..... the last stage of capitalism ...

Beijing–Pyongyang passenger rail is back for the first time in 6+ years. North Korea's "travel representatives" are already meeting with Chinese tour agencies in Beijing, Shenyang, and Dandong.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #ChinaDPRK #KoreanPeninsula https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-tourism-hopes-rise-as-beijing-pyongyang-train-resumes/
Beijing–Pyongyang passenger rail restarted March 12 for the first time in ~6 years. Now Hyesan smuggling resumes. Chinese traders are reading this as a full China–DPRK thaw.
#NorthKorea #China #Geopolitics #DPRK https://www.dailynk.com/english/smuggling-resumes-at-hyesan-as-north-korea-china-trade-signals-point-to-broader-thaw/
"Thin is in." Wealthy North Korean women in Chongjin are dieting and tracking their weight — inspired by South Korean beauty standards smuggled in via banned videos.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #KBeauty #SouthKorea https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-koreas-beauty-boom-slim-figures-and-wrinkle-free-skin/
Chinese firms aren't just placing orders anymore — they're setting up production bases inside North Korea. A quiet deepening of economic integration that sanctions were designed to prevent.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #ChinaDPRK #Sanctions https://www.dailynk.com/english/orders-return-to-north-koreas-contract-manufacturing-sector-but-earnings-lag/
Since the 1990s famine, North Korean women have been the real breadwinners. Men are still required to show up at state jobs that pay next to nothing. The dynamic hasn't changed — until now it's exploding into divorces.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #NorthKoreanEconomy #HumanRights https://www.dailynk.com/english/in-hyesan-mens-new-income-is-tearing-families-apart/
Pyongyang is building 20 factories a year under its regional development push — but can't power the ones it already has. The grid is the plan's fatal flaw.
#DPRK #NorthKorea #Sanctions #KimJongUn https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-koreas-electricity-shortage-threatens-five-year-plan-targets/
In his small circle of meeting partners, Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has arrived in Pyongyang. A meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is scheduled. Likely exchanging views on authoritarian dictatorship.#DPRK