Abstract: In light of a second Kim–Trump summit this article reviews the posture of
Russia and China and suggests that not only do they have an alliance but that it
also includes to some degree North Korea. Moscow and Beijing have endorsed
Pyongyang’s negotiating posture and much evidence suggests a Russo–Chinese
alliance, albeit an informal one. Such an alliance possesses immense implications
for the ongoing efforts to find a negotiated path out of the Korean nuclearization
crisis and for regional security in general. But in the meantime the advent of such
an alliance imparts a quality of regional bipolarity to the Northeast Asian security
agenda that could obstruct further progress towards peace. Full text available here.
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