The Russian president visits North Korea and Vietnam to strengthen alliances.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, concluded a tour of two Asian nations with nice success. It was the primary time in 24 years that he had set foot in North Korea and left Pyongyang with a brand new protection pact as proof.
His two-day go to to Vietnam produced a number of new commerce offers with the manufacturing hub.
Putin’s newest state visits look like an try and shore up help amid rising isolation over his conflict in Ukraine.
However what can these nations acquire from nearer ties with Moscow? And the way is Washington reacting?
Presenter:
Laura Kyle
Friends:
Andrei Lankov – professor at Kookmin College and director of NK Information, an internet information supply centered on North Korea.
Benjamin Younger, assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth College; writer of Weapons, Guerrillas, and the Nice Chief: North Korea and the Third World
Carlyle Thayer, Professor Emeritus, College of New South Wales, Canberra; former senior workers member of the US Pacific Command’s Asia-Pacific Safety Research Heart