Posted on 06/08/2018 1:39:15 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
North Korean state media announced on June 3 that Assad will meet Kim in Pyongyang, though it’s unclear when that meeting will happen or whether Assad himself has confirmed it. Russian state media reported Monday that Putin had invited Kim to attend a summit in Vladivostok, Russia, this September.
It’s true that Russia, North Korea and Syria have all found themselves increasingly surrounded by ideological enemies. However, their relationships with each other go back several decades: Russia backed North Korea during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, then provided aid and military equipment for decades thereafter (technically, the Soviet Union and the United States drew the dividing line through the Korean peninsula in 1945 after they “liberated” it from Japan — then North Korea, with permission of the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea to “reunify the peninsula” in 1950). As for Syria, look no further than the museum murals of Kim Il-sung and Hafez al-Assad in both Pyongyang and Damascus. There’s a park in Damascus named after Kim Il-sung, too.
“Kim Jong-un’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, [was] a good friend of Assad’s father,” said Jang Ji-hyang, Seoul-based director of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. “I’ve heard that the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus has a huge picture of the two holding hands together. They’re more than just an official alliance — they’re actual friends.”
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Which is why Trump needs to get his foot in the door first. Soetoro and Hellary would hold the door open for Putin to get there first.
Lining up a new place to live after the Koreas reunite and his crimes are exposed?
Kim is as much of a monster as Hitler, Stalin, Moa, etc. When removed from power he’ll have to run. Looking for his own personal “Safe Space.”
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