Karishma Vaswani, Columnist

Trump Will Walk Into a New North Korean Headache

The President-elect will find that Pyongyang’s troops in Ukraine pose a risk to Indo-Pacific stability.

November 7, 2024 at 1:30 AM UTC

Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC's lead Asia presenter and worked for the BBC across Asia and South Asia for two decades.

Putin and Kim: Washington has been put on notice.
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The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia to support its war efforts in Ukraine has pushed Asia into dangerous territory. It has ratcheted up already heightened hostilities between North and South Korea and threatens to destabilize the wider Indo-Pacific region. The US, under President-elect Donald Trump’s leadership, will need to find a way to tone down the actions of the increasingly belligerent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.