Amid North Korea’s ample support for Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine, Beltway punditry has largely seen the revitalized North Korea-Russia partnership as a “marriage of convenience.” Some analysts initially asserted that this was primarily a transactional relationship and a classic case of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But recent sociocultural events suggest…
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Benjamin Young
Benjamin R. Young, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies at Fayetteville State University. He has previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dakota State University and the U.S. Naval War College. He was a 2024-25 Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Fellow at the RAND Corporation. He is the author of the book "Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World" (Stanford University Press, 2021).
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January 5, 2026
Forged in the blood and strife of the anti-Japanese struggle during the colonial era, the North Korean revolution, with Kim Il-sung at its core, was built on the ethos of…