[ameribbean expat]

https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/the-growing-russia-south-korea-partnership/

A lot of things getting shuffled over there. Realignment seems to be in the wind.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Russia needs to get their act together. If they are really interested in economic prosperity in their Far East region, they could have done many years ago. They generally neglected the region. Instead their focus was in the West and Mid-East. They did not ditched their connection to N. Korea, either. Somehow they still hang onto N. Korea as their geopolitical leverage.

The new government in S. Korea is all for pro-North, pro-China, and pro-anything if it fits their ingrained anti-American anti-Japanese attitude. But it is up to Putin to work on it earnestly. Up to now Russian Far East and nearby Siberia are only places where they are pumping out oil and gas, but not much beyond. The region is in bad shape economically. Russians living there slowly gravitate toward S. Korea. For example, there are regular trades between the region and S. Korea albeit on small scale. Some well-to-do Russians there go to big S. Korean hospitals for their medical treatment.