The West underestimates North Korea at its peril

Gideon Rachman North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting the National Defence University in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct 7. “The first step to a world war”. That was how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the anticipated arrival of North Korean troops on the front line of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Western security officials have warned for months of growing cooperation between an “axis of adversaries”, made up of Russia, North Korea, Iran and China. North Korean support for Russia is the most dramatic evidence yet of that axis in action. Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.



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