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  • 06 Jun 2018
  • 5 min

Explainer 118: Why is Bashar al-Assad going to North Korea?

  • The Foreign Desk
  • 5 min

When North Korean state media announced this week that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was to visit Kim Jong-un the world reacted with a collective ‘Huh?’ But the two leaders have plenty in common and, as Andrew Mueller explains, this won’t be the first time the countries have co-operated.

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  • Andrew Mueller

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