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#PREVIEW: #DPRK: #KIM-JONG-UN: PUTIN; From a conversation with colleague Anthony Ruggiero of FDD re the transformation of North Korea from a failed state backwater to an integrated and industrious member of the Axis of Resistance. More later today.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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#PREVIEW: #DPRK: #KIM-JONG-UN: PUTIN; From a conversation with colleague Anthony Ruggiero of FDD re the transformation of North Korea from a failed state backwater to an integrated and industrious member of the Axis of Resistance. More later today.

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This is John Bachelor a conversation with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Anthony

0:35.6

Wugero, who was director of the North Korean desk for the National Security Council for the

0:40.4

Trump Administration, now a senior fellow at the FDD commenting on North Korea

0:46.4

and its recent move to link up with Moscow, with Russia, not only to sell weaponry and ammunition but also to share what

0:58.4

looks to be a common future there is a report that Mr Putin will travel to North Korea for the first time in 20 years

1:07.0

to visit Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.

1:11.0

There's also reason to believe that North Korea is being integrated

1:14.8

into the axis of resistance. Promoted. Here's Anthony Rijero of FTD to explain what we know now about North Korea and its integration into the

1:27.3

larger story of Ukraine, NATO, and the 21st century.

1:32.4

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if North Korea NATO and the 21st century.

1:33.0

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if North Korea was helping somewhere in Russia.

1:37.0

It also wouldn't surprise me if, you know, because they're big in, the workers are big into the construction industry and logging industry and other types of

1:44.8

industry it wouldn't surprise me if North Koreans start showing up in occupied territories

1:50.6

in Ukraine, rebuilding for the Russians.

1:54.1

But it's not a coincidence to me that the two countries that this administration has

1:58.4

essentially relieved sanctions on Iran and North Korea have become either junior partners or subsidiary partners in Russia's Ukraine war and the fact that this administration is not focusing on that as a main way to address the Ukraine war is a serious

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