War in Ukraine: could aid from North Korea to Russia be a game-changer?

2023-09-07 09:24:36

This rapprochement is not entirely unexpected. The first stones were laid several weeks ago. Last July, when the Russian Defense Minister traveled to Pyongyang to meet his North Korean counterpart, or again in mid-August, when Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un expressed their desire to “strengthen cooperation” between their two countries. American intelligence even claimed, as early as February, that Korea was delivering arms to the Russian Wagner militia.