Russia’s dictator may arrive in Pyongyang this week
to fuel his war in Ukraine. They now have an “unbreakable relationship of comrades-in-arms”, the North Korean dictator gushed in a recent message to his Russian counterpart. Mr Kim has made two trips to Russia’s Far East to meet Mr Putin since 2019; Mr Putin is expected to soon make his first visit to Pyongyang since 2000, the year he became president.has blossomed thanks to geopolitical shifts.
Mr Kim turned away from talks with America following the failed summit in Hanoi and began making fresh overtures to Russia. The response was lukewarm—until Mr Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine floundered and Russia came to need munitions, one of the few things Mr Kim’s regime has in abundance. But the implications of the realignment go beyond the weapons trade. “It’s a mistake to think about it simply as an arms deal,” argues Jenny Town of the Stimson Centre, an American think-tank.
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