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[Iskander]

Wonder if North Korea accepts palm oil as payments. Would like to see North Korean know how to advance our own missile program.

The question is not posed correctly.
First, we need to clarify: do North Koreans know what palm oil is?
And then the next question: What types of oils do they know?
The question of butter can be immediately removed, since the North Koreans have known for 75 years that such butter does not actually exist in nature, and that it is a “product” of enemy propaganda

 

[Bogeyman]

Wonder if North Korea accepts palm oil as payments. Would like to see North Korean know how to advance our own missile program.

North Korea makes billions of dollars every year from crypto theft.

 

[Gary]

North Korea makes billions of dollars every year from crypto theft.

I know. There's even a North Korean run restaurant in Jakarta to siphon hard cash back to Pyongyang (Unit 39).

 

[Bogeyman]

U.S. condemns N. Korea's missile launch, calls for return to dialogue​

The United States on Tuesday condemned North Korea's ballistic missile launch this week as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and renewed calls for the recalcitrant regime to return to dialogue.

The South Korean military said that the North fired an unspecified ballistic missile from a site in or around Pyongyang on Wednesday morning (Korea time), but its launch is presumed to have failed. The launch appears to have involved a hypersonic missile, according to a source.

"The United States condemns the DPRK's June 26 ballistic missile launch. This launch, like the DPRK's other ballistic missile launches in recent years, took place in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions," a State Department spokesperson said in response to a question from Yonhap News Agency.

DPRK stands for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"These launches pose a threat to the DPRK's neighbors and undermine regional security. We remain committed to a diplomatic approach to the DPRK and call on the DPRK to engage in dialogue," the spokesperson added.

In a separate statement, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command called on the North to refrain from "further unlawful and destabilizing acts."

"While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, or territory, or to our allies, we continue to monitor the situation," the command said. "The U.S. commitments to the defense of the ROK and Japan remain ironclad."

ROK stands for the South's official name, the Republic of Korea.

The latest launch came after the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Busan, 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Saturday ahead of a trilateral exercise with South Korea and Japan.

It added to inter-Korean tensions caused by Pyongyang's sending of trash-carrying balloons to the South and its troops' brief yet repeated border crossings.

U.S. condemns N. Korea's missile launch, calls for return to dialogue | Yonhap News Agency

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, June 25 (Yonhap) -- The United States on Tuesday condemned N...

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