Moscow–Pyongyang Partnership Could Derail Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy – Analysis

By Ben Sando

In November 2024, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya stopped in Kyiv for a surprise meeting with his counterpart, Andrii Sybiha. Iwaya’s priority was to discuss the some 12,000 North Korean soldiers battling Ukrainian forces in the Kursk border region of Russia.

This burgeoning military...