The roles appear to have reversed in the war that has left 18 months behind. Russia, which has been on the defensive against Ukraine's offensive for a while, has now turned its attention to North Korea.
The Putin-Kim summit, held under the shadow of allegations that Moscow wanted to buy weapons and ammunition from North Korea to sustain the war, has ended.
Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank, said, "The US has no influence on North Korea right now," and stated that the US is almost helpless.
Dr. Edward Howell, who works in the field of political science at the University of Oxford, issued a noteworthy warning.
In his article for the Daily Mail, the British expert said, "If both Putin and Kim Jong Un get what they want, disaster awaits us." Howell, who commented that the two 'bad boys' of international relations now seem closer allies than their Cold War predecessors, pointed out that the UN is in the weakest position in its history.
Drawing attention to Russia's veto power at the UN, the British expert noted that this alliance has the capacity to clog up the international system.
