GIL H. A. SANTOS
MOST of the 626 million people of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) were not aware that last week North Korea sent the world’s leaders and their security experts scrambling to closely monitor the military muscle-flexing of Pyongyang and its unpredictable dictator Kim Jong-un.
That is because communist North Korea is closely allied militarily, politically and economically with China and Russia since the end of the Second World War in 1945.
To recall the chronology of developments, let me point out that the Pyongyang regime has violated several times over the last decades—earning …read more
Source: The Manila Times
