Russia may be looking to Kim to replenish its ammunition and artillery supplies as the war in Ukraine grinds into another bloody winter . Kim knows that Russia is a longtime and sophisticated nuclear power whose expertise could help his own expanding program . Pyongyang is also adept at drone and missile technology . Washington has reacted to the possibility of the meeting which could possibly take place after Kim climbs aboard his armored train headed for the Russian far east by mocking Putin warning North Korea and trying to work out what it might mean . The US is trumpeting information from its intelligence agencies to foreshadow and discredit Putins moves before they happen . While the US is dismissive of the possible KimPutin meeting both leaders have the capacity to make trouble for Washington . If North Korea is able to offer Putin significant military help it would bolster Russias hopes of prolonging the war . If the war stretches deep into the US election year Putin could also increase the political pressure on President Joe Biden amid growing public questions about his multibilliondollar lifeline for Ukraine . The Kremlin may not have offered quite the assistance that the Russian leader might have hoped to provide . But moral arguments won’t move Kim who keeps his population locked in a vast prison camp wracked by repression and famines. But it won’t move Kim’s population . The moral arguments wont move Kim . But it will not move Kim. But the moral arguments wouldn‘t move his population. But he kept his population . But he keeps his people in a huge prison camp . He keeps his country’. He kept his people’… But it wouldn’ve been locked in his population’ll be locked in an ‘barbaric prison camp’ – but it’d
US scorns Putin’s possible turn toward North Korea . U.S. scorns
