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#NorthKorea: Moscow romances Kim. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, on these:

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#NorthKorea: Moscow romances Kim. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, on these:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/europe/russia-north-korea-advancing-arms-deal-intl/index.html

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the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation, General Shoigo. David, a very good day to you.

1:10.5

It appears from this reporting that Russia is shopping for missiles, for drones, for modernisation,

1:19.2

for modern weapons for the war in Ukraine. This is attractive in some fashion to Kim Jong-un.

1:27.3

What does North Korea get out of this, David? Is it cash? Is that the whole idea here?

1:32.1

Or is there some wedding of the minds that is new? Good day to you, David.

1:37.9

There's a myriad of things that they will benefit from this trade.

1:43.4

Certainly cash is one. Oil is another. Advanced technology,

1:48.7

such as perhaps miniaturisation of nuclear weapons, reentry capability for ICBMs,

1:56.8

all kind of technology as well as we've heard intelligence sharing, satellite information.

2:03.6

Recall that North Korea has been unable to launch effective intelligence gathering satellites.

2:09.9

Much of this will be behind the scenes and we might not have visibility on.

2:16.3

There's a lot of ways that Kim Jong-un can benefit. Most important being gaining support from Russia

2:24.6

for whatever it might do, and Russia could be somewhat beholden to North Korea for its support.

2:32.7

What we're really seeing in the big picture here is an alignment of the axis of authoritarians.

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