The gang is getting back together again!
That's the first time the Russian defense minister has visited since the fading embers of the Soviet Union... and he decided to visit while there was a nuke parade.
The dystopian wasteland of North Korea might not be much of a threat to the U.S. on its own, but its filled with brainwashed zealots who have no connection to the outside world and would gladly die to kill us all.
You've got to wonder what China and Russia could do with a few million people like that.
More from WaPo:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flanked by Russian defense chief Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Politburo member Li Hongzhong, watched a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement, according to photos released by North Korean state media Friday.
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The message was unequivocal: Russia and China are standing by North Korea despite its nuclear and weapons buildup. It also signaled that, after more than three years of strict border closures, North Korea is slowly beginning to crack open its doors.
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Earlier in the week, Kim guided Shoigu through a defense exhibition featuring ballistic missiles that are banned under the U.N. Security Council resolutions originally adopted with support from Russia and China. In recent years, Beijing and Moscow have hampered the council's efforts to punish North Korea after repeated tests of the banned missiles.
But anyway, we're over here paying to castrate our soldiers so they can pretend to be women and then exempting them from physical fitness requirements because it makes us stronger or something.
