A nation must think before it acts.
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Quoted in The Globe and Mail on Russia and North Korea
He is the reigning bad boy of global affairs, a nemesis of American presidents and an antagonist who flouts international borders and diplomatic protocols.
So how did Vladimir Putin come to be the voice of calm in the storm?
In the furious debate over how to subdue a defiant Kim Jong-un, it has fallen to the strongman Russian leader to take up the cause of peace in a volatile region and rational thought in a time of discourse tainted with madness. Indeed, South Korean President Moon Jae-in even personally begged Mr. Putin this week to “tame” Seoul’s northern neighbour.