Cold war ghosts haunt talks between Russian and North Korean dictators shunned by the West
Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un: Putin's travel options and guest list have dwindled since he destroyed relations with the West and fell foul of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.A green armoured train delivers a North Korean dictator to a meeting with a Kremlin leader, to discuss friendship between their peoples and co-operation in the long fight against western imperialism.
It could be Kim Il-sung meeting Josef Stalin in Moscow in 1949, a year after North Korea was founded, or his grandson Kim Jong-un trundling to the Vostochny cosmodrome in eastern Russia on Wednesday for talks with its current ruler, Vladimir Putin. Both delegations were coy on the content of the summit at Russia’s most modern space rocket launch site, amid US warnings that it would be “huge mistake” for Pyongyang to tap its stores of Soviet-era arms to replenish Moscow’s arsenal 18 months into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The venue suggested that Putin and Kim wanted to keep the possibly grubby talk of ageing ammunition under wraps and project an image of dynamic, forward-thinking leaders forging a high-tech partnership for which even the sky may not be the limit.
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