Let's start with the Middle East, the world's oil tap.
All they have to do is capture control of the oil tap.
It alone can make a deal with the south work and turn the oil tap back on.
Under current conditions, the oil "tap" is not so dry, though presumably, economic activity will pick up someday and oil will become scarce again.
In late February it is reported to have turned off the oil taps on North Korea for two or three days to encourage it to tone down its belligerence.
With all that money pouring straight from Iraq's oil taps -- thus obviating the need to wring donations from member countries -- the oil-for-food program has evolved into a bonanza of jobs and commercial clout.
China is pressing North Korea to accept a multilateral cover, so that direct talks with America can happen behind it and may have had to turn off its oil taps briefly in February to get Mr Kim's attention.
But the operators need to pay hefty bribes to the police and military, as well as to buy oil tapped off the 1,600km of pipelines that cross the delta.
On Monday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet to decide whether to open the oil tap and relieve the tight supply conditions that have driven up fuel prices worldwide.
"It will be over when we close the oil taps, all revenues will vanish, and they will not be able to find food when our trucks stop going to northern Iraq".
