{"id":7103,"date":"2017-12-06T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2017-12-06T06:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T06:11:52","slug":"north-korea-invests-in-algae-claims-it-is-strategic-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/north-korea-invests-in-algae-claims-it-is-strategic-resource.html","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Invests In Algae, Claims It Is \u201cStrategic Resource\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has decided to invest in algal life, and is hoping to harness the organism and use it as a \u201cstrategic resource\u201d. Sources believe the country has ventured into the area in the interests of national security.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5496 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The researchers at Johns Hopkins believe that North Korea hopes the algae industry could soon \u201cmitigate the negative effects of sanctions both on the country\u2019s energy supply and food security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsguards.com\/2017\/11\/28\/north-korea-invests-algae-claims-strategic-resource\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has decided to invest in algal life, and is hoping to harness the organism and use it as a \u201cstrategic resource\u201d. Sources believe the country has ventured into the area in the interests of national security. The researchers at Johns Hopkins believe that North Korea hopes the algae industry could soon \u201cmitigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,4,56,6],"tags":[279,126,115],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-for-food","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-energy","category-algae-energy-investments","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-food","tag-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}