How Russia is trying to take advantage of the differences between China and North Korea to increase its influence on Kim Jong-un
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Feb. 3 sent letters congratulating the world’s Lunar New Year on Feb. 3. In the list of Pyongyang-friendly countries that received such letters, North Korea’s official news agency first put Russia ahead of China’s traditional allies. The gesture of placing Moscow at the head of this symbolic hierarchy…