Putin-Kim Summit: A Long Overdue Event

... compliance guarantees to accompany possible agreements. Not so much from Washington’s side, which through its withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran 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,...