“Dangerous bedfellows”, “rogue brothers in arms” and “friends in need” are some of the expressions experts and journalists have used to describe North Korea-Myanmar relations in the past.
In 2005, the then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled Myanmar an “outpost of tyranny”, a feature that saw the country enter the club of the “pariah states” along with Cuba, Iran, Belarus, Zimbabwe and North Korea.
“Dangerous bedfellows”, “rogue brothers in arms” and “friends in need” are some of the expressions experts and journalists have used to describe North Korea-Myanmar relations in the past.
In 2005, the then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled Myanmar an “outpost of tyranny”, a feature that saw the country enter the club of the “pariah states” along with Cuba, Iran, Belarus, Zimbabwe and North Korea.
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