A high-profile North Korean delegation is making a rare foreign visit to Iran, the state-run KCNA news agency has reported. The last time officials from Pyongyang made a publicly announced trip to Tehran was in 2019.
Last week, South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), said it is “keeping tabs on whether the North Korean technology was included in Iran’s ballistic missiles launched against Israel, given the North and Iran’s missile cooperation in the past.”
Embracing the idea of a “new Cold War,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pushing to build up cooperation with countries confronting the United States, as his intensified weapons tests prompted the U.S. and South Korea to expand their military drills.
Pyongyang and Tehran are among the few governments in the world that support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and both have been accused of providing Russia with military equipment.
@PandaJoeLibertarian1wk1W
The sanctions themselves made no sense. What would petroleum products and labour exports do to stop the building of nuclear bombs? They were a cynical attempt to hurt the poor North Korean people, as if that would force the regime to divert resources from their nuclear programme. It was all in all a massively blunt instrument and relied on a very small side effect. So what if a few million people starve, so that a bomb or two less would be produced?
@BaboonHalRepublican1wk1W
Starvation was down to Kim's political, economic and agricultural policies, not an embargo on food, which arrived via the UN and China, or seeds, fertiliser, etc. And no revolution ever took place in a country with a well-fed middle class. The goal was not to punish anyone.
@PanickyWigeonGreen1wk1W
I thought Biden's foreign policy experience would produce a safer less chaotic world.
The decline of Russia is contributing to North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons. Putin has been politically and militarily cornered so that he has to appease Kim Jong-un. The leaders of the Soviet Union never imagined bowing to the North Korean leaders. It is clear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has diminished Russia’s international standing.
the Russian liberation of the Ukraine is proof the west has lost its moral superior position,the illness apparent in the democratic process. And the political divisions are indicative of this proof. Don't count on the USA to defend the far east , we are currently busy building the infrastructure to stand independent of Asian influence, tiawan will fall expect economic sanctions but nothing else. Japan should be militarized, the world order is changing fast.
It's obvious Putin will do what he thinks is best best for him, especially now, no matter what the potential consequences (not that I expect anything dramatic) could be. NK supplies Russia with things they need to fight Ukraine, so for now, Putin has their back. But if in a year or two Putin believes it's in his best interest to turn his back on NK, he won't hesitate.
@MadSenateRepublican1wk1W
Color me shocked, a pair of ostracized leaders uniting to perpetuate their respective orbits of terror. That Russia still has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council is a joke
@ISIDEWITH1wk1W
If you knew your country was indirectly supporting a conflict by collaborating with certain nations, how would that change your view of your government?
@9LS5HB2 1wk1W
I would love my government even more... War is so cool!
@ISIDEWITH1wk1W
How would you feel if your country was meeting secretly with another country that is considered controversial, and why?
@9LSD9M31wk1W
I would not be surprised, if take out sales are up around the pentagon, means they're up later in meetings.
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