i spoke to samuel greene, who is a professor of russian politics at king's college london and senior ligence has been showing, neither side has been hiding the fact that there have been some flows of armaments, low—level flows, pretty basic stuff from north korea to russia for quite some time now. sergei shoigu, the russian defence minister, recently was in pyongyang, where he was feted, and they talked about this growing relationship, and this has been telegraphed now for the last several days at least, that there was going to be a trip to russia, likely a meeting between the two leaders. and, you know, it is reflective of something that is not surprising, which is that russia doesn't have a lot of friends, so it needs to get a little bit closer at the moment to those who are willing to do business with it. samuel, what do you think the two sides want from each other? well, there are at least two things going on, one is pragmatic, so russia does want arms, and north korea is in a position to provide at least some support in that regard. and north korea wants technology, and there's c