Good morning. I’m Rupert Neate and I’ll be joining Nimo to bring you this daily briefing for the next couple of months. Normally, I write about the antics of the global super-rich, but this morning we’ll be trying to figure out what the leaders of two of the world’s “rogue states” are getting up to – and what it means for all of us.
Kim Jong-un, the self-styled “supreme leader” of North Korea who had not left the country since before the pandemic, has rolled into Russia on his personal luxury bullet-proof train for a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin this morning at a space base in the country’s far-east.
