NORTH KOREA AND RUSSIA GO HEAD TO HEAD

FSB also indicated that DPRK diplomatic authorities stationed in the city of Vladivostok, Russia has been notified of the situation.

North’s State Media Silent

At an examination of the English page of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state owned media branch of Kim Jong Un’s government, there is no mention of fisherman dying.

Nevertheless, the KCNA is used as a propaganda tool and it shouldn’t be expected for the North Korean authorities would risk anything not to stifle the state-levied ignorance to reality the population morbidly suffers from.

In this case, the KCNA’s silence is expected.

Current Relations between North Korea and Russia: Game of Nukes

As aforementioned at the beginning of this report, will these border skirmish threaten relations between the Russians and the North Koreans. In a sense, I would have to say that the push back will be noticeable but the overall operating system in play for the authoritarian states’ foreign relations suggest otherwise.

Considering recent reports, Moscow supposedly allowed North Korean nuclear researchers to work and study in Russian facilities.

The report coming from a former United Nations Security Council staffer, may lend some connection to the North successfully testing ballistic missile technology.

The most recent account of Russian-North Korean diplomatic friendliness can be seen in a report from NK News, the west’s leading media authority on North Korea, that diplomatic staff from Russia saw an uptick at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.

Russia, alongside China, has put the United States on blast for increasing sanctions and moving for a tighter missile defense on the orient because of North Korea’s rising nuclear power.

One Russian general even stated that “Russian military experts believe that the US hopes to gain the capability to strike any region of the world, including Russia and China, with nuclear-tipped missiles with impunity,” via The Australian.

American officials have indicated that such moves are directed only at North Koreans.

Regardless, I think you get the picture. There won’t be to many set backs between Russia and North Korea. Putin will continue to work with the Great Leader and move the last strong hold of Cold War era aggressivism closer to nuclear capability.

>>78945
>Putin will continue to work with the Great Leader and move the last strong hold of Cold War era aggressivism closer to nuclear capability.

Question. Why do the Chinese tolerate that? NK with nukes is a big headache for China.

>>78943
what are 'illegally obtained water bio resources'

>>78958
Fish they were fisherman afterall

>>78948
They don't really tolerate the Norks per-se. Few of the people I've spoken to in China have nice words about them
But the Best Koreans are fantastic leverage against the West

>>78985

It's more that China is terrified about what would happen with the collapse of the North Korean state. It wouldn't just be a humanitarian crisis and economic burden on the South Koreans but China as well since a massive wave of refugees would pour across the border.

In addition, a war between the north and south would put a serious number of Chinese diplomats and business interests in Seoul at risk, since the SK capital would be the number one target in any war between the two Koreas.

Finally, the Chinese want to maintain NK as a buffer state to avoid sharing a border with a western-backed nation.

China isn't using North Korea as leverage against the west, North Korea is leveraging itself against China AND the west, because right now it's best for both of those parties for North Korea to be stuck in a perpetual 1950's time warp. Unfortunate, all the new nuclear technology they're getting will force the status quo to change, and who knows what the fuck will happen then.

>>78985
>>79002

I understand why China tolerates North Korea. I don't understand why it tolerates Russians helping them get the nukes. Another country is arming a barely controllable regime on your border with nuclear weapons. Shouldn't the Chinese be pissed?

>>79054
They probably are. They aren't going to start WW3 over it though. If NK does anything with that tech, China will probably be the first to invade and annex.