PREVIEW: NORTHKOREA: #UKRAINE: Part of a conversation with Washington Post Josh Rogin who explains that Kim of North Korea has broken out of his isolation by allying with Moscow and declaring war . Where Kim declares war is the surprise. And what this me
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Batcheter, conversation with my colleague Josh Rogan of the Washington Post about |
| 0:35.6 | Korea declaring war, but a surprising declaration of war, not on South Korea, not on Japan. North Korea |
| 0:46.8 | declaring war on Ukraine through its new best buddy Russia. Here's Josh to describe how the isolation of the North Korean |
| 0:58.0 | tragedy is over. It's over with Moscow and what that means for China, for the United States, and for risk. |
| 1:07.0 | Josh Roggan. |
| 1:08.0 | That's exactly right. Not only is he breaking his isolation, he's giving Putin the ability to break Putin's isolation. |
| 1:13.8 | So neither of those countries is credibly deterred by Western sanctions that both of them are violating. |
| 1:18.8 | And with a Russian friend at the UN Security Council to protect him. There's very little chance of any |
| 1:23.8 | accountability to increase the pressure to stop him from doing any of this. Now the |
| 1:28.0 | dynamic with China is really interesting because we know Kim Jong-un doesn't really |
| 1:31.4 | like Xi Jinping and vice versa so he's actually playing them off one another again it's not always about us |
| 1:36.5 | it's not everything is about the United States so no I don't think he'll be at the |
| 1:40.0 | Shanghai Cooperation or musician because I don't think he'll get an invite from China. |
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