[sergey1973]

"So what does Iran have that Russia wants to negotiate for? Or N.Korea for that matter???"

N. Korea got already a few missiles that during the test firing landed in the Russian side of the Sea of Japan (one landed just a few dozen miles away from the Russian Port of Nakhodka).

I guess Putin need more missiles coming out from N. Korea or nuclear armed Shaheeds coming out from Iran to aid N. Caucasus Islamist insurgency -:))))

[Just mythoughts]

Hmmmm is there a fast train headed to N.Korea to fix that directional problem?

There is a reason why Putin is NOT coming down hard on the N.Koreans, what I don't know, but they (N.Korea) has got something he wants from them.