North Korea: a revisionist state. Iran: a revisionist state.
Both of them determined to destroy their neighborhoods and the threat represented to them by the liberal world order. That is the larger theme and addressed immediately by a new book, Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership Between Iran and North Korea.
Bruce Bechtol and Anthony Celso are the authors from the University Press of Kentucky. I come to Bruce for his comments chiefly on the North Korean threat, because it is not adequately represented in the reporting.
What we've witnessed these last two years, the attack on Israel and Israel's right to defend itself from multiple surrogates for Iran, that behind that Iranian presence is North Korea itself.
I begin with a comment Bruce makes early in the book that neither Republican or Democratic presidential administrations have grasped the dangers of these two countries working together. If I understand that correctly, that is a profound myth. Is that still true right now, or has it come to everybody that North Korea feeding all those long range artillery shells to Russia is feeding everyone else, too?
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