Putin-Kim Summit: A Long Overdue Event
... and the ABM and INF treaties vividly confirmed its failings as a reliable partner. Pyongyang wants security guarantees from Beijing and Moscow, which are linked to the DPRK geographically, historically and politically. With his trip to Vladivostok, Kim Jong-un shows that he assigns no less importance to cooperation with Russia than to work with the inter-Korean, American and Chinese agendas. Moscow emphasises that there is no alternative to a political and diplomatic solution of all Korean issues, and is ready to come up with specific proposals on this subject, as happened,...