North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin that could enhance North Korea’s ability to attack the United States or its allies.
"Naturally, being neighbors, our countries cooperate in certain sensitive spheres which should not be publicly revealed or announced,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
“Two pieces of technology that we believe they seek is miniaturization of nuclear warheads and reentry technology for their [intercontinental ballistic missiles],” Senior Fellow David Maxwell at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told the Washington Examiner. “If they don't have them, this could be Kim's opportunity to try to really extort them from Russia to further advance North Korean nuclear and missile capabilities. That would be a direct threat to the United States.
Kim and Putin’s expanding relationship has already stirred unease in South Korea, the democratic U.S. ally that has been in an uneasy armistice with its northern neighbor for 70 years. “If they are looking for weaponry in North Korea, one of the poorest and less developed countries of the world — an isolated country — to my mind that is the utmost humiliation of the propaganda of Russian 'great power,’” former Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev, who held that post in Boris Yeltsin’s first term as president, told the BBC. “A great power would not go to North Korea for an alliance or military supplies.
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