Eat your heart out, Donald Trump. Your ex-love Kim Jong Un has found a new love interest in the form of your old pal, Vladimir Putin.
The story of the budding Kim-Putin bromance is right there in expressions of mutual adoration on the occasion of “Liberation Day,” August 15, marking the Japanese surrender in World War II. Kim wished Putin “good health and big success in his responsible work for defending the sovereignty and interests of the country.” And Putin, on the same day, promised “to expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with common efforts.
Their meeting in the Russian Far Eastern port city in April 2019, about six weeks after the Trump-Kim bust-up in Hanoi, lasted only a few hours before Kim flew on to Beijing, but it sealed a relationship in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided the ideal opportunity for Kim to build on the bond. All he had to do was promise unstinting support in Russia’s war against Ukrainian forces supported by their mutual foe, the United States and its NATO allies.
All of which, in the view of some analysts, would show how hard up both leaders are for friends in a hostile world. Igot Korotchenko, described as a pundit on Russian TV’s Channel One, recently cited reports that “100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict.” Indeed, said Korotchenko, if North Korea “expresses a desire to meet its international duty to fight against Ukrainian fascism, we should let them.”
“Putin’s cuddling up to Kim Jong Un underlines his frustration, even desperation, about the international solidarity against his outrageous invasion of Ukraine,” Straub told The Daily Beast. “If you need North Korea as a friend, you’re really hurting.”
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