Kim Seongmin, who fled to South Korea in the 1990s, broadcasts to his homeland twice a day, delivering the kind of information Pyongyang is trying hard to suppress.

North Korea, Russia, and China often inhabit the same position in the headspaces of NATO nations as the United Bloc against the Treaty's forces. However, are these powers as closely aligned as is supposed?

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has told the Russian defence minister that Ukraine's use of long-range weapons is the result of direct military intervention by the United States and Moscow is entitled to fight in self-defence,