North Korea, Russia: Thick as thieves.

Also: Ukraine, China, Southeast Asia, the DRC and climate change.

Raskolnikov and Marmeladov, Mikhail Petrovich Klodt, 1874, watercolour on paper, private collection, Moscow.

NORTH KOREA. RUSSIA. Thick as thieves.

Kim and Putin head to Vladivostok.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will visit Vladivostok this month to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported on Monday. Vladivostok’s Far Eastern University will h…