Russia and North Korea make up the latest international odd couple. President Vladimir Putin reached out to one of the poorest and least predictable states on earth. So far the new Moscow-Pyongyang axis matters little. But Russia demonstrated that it can make Washington pay for confronting Moscow over Ukraine.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea exists only because of Russia’s predecessor state. The U.S. and Soviet Union divided the Korean peninsula, which had been a Japanese colony, after Tokyo’s surrender in World War II. Moscow’s zone became the DPRK.
In 1950 Joseph Stalin approved Kim Il-sung’s plan for a military offensive to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
