
Countries that value financial sovereignty would still be interested.

Countries that value financial sovereignty would still be interested.
If it was someone else saying this, there would be no downvotes. The messenger matters more than the message for an awful lot of people.

They just got access to trade with a continent sized country, with all sorts of resources they were previously denied. Sounds like a beneficial arrangement for the north koreans, in their situation.
People talking about the effects of closing the straight being bad for multiple countries. Can Iran enforce a sort of selective closing, like the houthis did? Allowing ships as long as they dont trade with the usa? Or maybe only allow countries that dont host usa military bases?

So much freaking parking space, what a waste.

Yemen also promised to attack every US ship in this occasion.
next one after this is taiwan and the philippines

It’s of no use. Holywood did an amazing job at villainizing russian aesthetics, so it comes off as natural to feel the prejudice.