For Putin and Kim Jong Un, the Vladivostok Meeting Was the Message

Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERSNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has at last played the Russian card, meeting President Vladimir Putin for their first summit. But he’s still holding it close to his chest.Yes, Kim appeared to have gotten along better with Putin in Vladivostok than he did with President Donald Trump in Hanoi, where the summit meltdown seems to have cost a top North Korean diplomat his job and is rumored to have cost four lesser envoys their lives. After Kim arrived by...