Like any good gambler though, opponents of this critical resource development have an ace in the hole.

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Even without nuclear weapons, North Korea has an ace in the hole.

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But the reason why so many of these mortgage companies were making loans that banks couldn't make is because they had an ace in the hole, and their ace in the hole was Wall Street.

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