In the wake of the Sony hack, Russia buddies up to North Korea

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Moscow in 2015, the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Dec. 19, 2014. North Korea’s reclusive leader would be celebrating the anniversary of the former Soviet Union's World War Two victory on May 9, 2015. Last month, Kim Jong Un sent his personal envoy to Moscow to further deepening ties between Russia and North Korea. If Kim accepts Putin’s offer, this will be his first public foreign visit since coming to power in December 2011.

Russia’s Gazprom wants to build a gas pipeline through North Korea, to provide natural gas exports to South Korea. Russia also seeks leverage in dealing with the West, by offering help in resuming stalled international talks on North Korea’s nuclear program. The talks were suspended after Pyongyang tested nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009. Russia’s leading mad-hatter ideologue Alexander Dugin advocated that Russia should be providing nuclear weaponry to North Korea, as the last refuge of communism. Russia’s politicians and talking heads see North Korea as a partner in the grandstanding between post-Soviet holdouts and the West. North Korea is also providing free workers for the labor camps in Siberiain exchange for the payments from Russia to the government of North Korea. Laborers live and work in deplorable conditions, with terms ranging from three to ten years.

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