THERE'S COAL UNDER THE GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS

THE DEAR LEADER PLANS TO MINE COAL TO GET GOLD TO PAY  FOR  CARBON OFFSETS

North Korea will create 

“mountains of gold” 

to combat climate change

. According to The Guardian, 

North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Su-yong announced that the country’s Supreme Leader “has declared war on deforestation and has put forward a massive project to turn all the mountains of the country into mountains of gold, thickly wooded with trees.”

While no one should poo-poo a nice tree-planting campaign, it’s interesting that Ri made no mention of his country’s number one source of CO2 emissions: coal. The fuel source amounted to a whopping 93 percent of North Korea’s 2008 CO2 emissions total. But the omission comes as no surprise: as the world’s 14th-largest producer of coal, North Korea relies heavily on the industry for income.
It is the third-largest exporter of coal to China