But that’s ok. Our charitable and loving Christian faith dictates that we can go in later and take, by force, any and all natural resources we desire.

Russia plants flag on seabed under North Pole

Sub reaches bottom of Arctic Ocean in bid to claim resource-rich region

Russian miniature submarines are seen under water in the Arctic Ocean in this image taken from a television broadcast on Thursday.

MOSCOW - A Russian submersible reached the bottom of the Arctic Ocean on Thursday in a mission to symbolically claim the resource-rich region by planting a flag on the seabed under the North Pole, Russian media reported.
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Under international law, the five states with territory inside the Arctic Circle — Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States and Denmark via its control of Greenland — have a 200 mile economic zone around the north of their coastline.

But Russia is claiming a larger slice extending as far as the North Pole because, Moscow says, the Arctic seabed and Siberia are linked by the same continental shelf.

Soviet and U.S. nuclear submarines have often traveled under the polar icecap, but no one has so far reached the seabed under the Pole, where depths exceed 13,100 feet.

MSNBC.com