Asia-Pacific Digest: UN sanctions on North Korea and Russia-ASEAN ties
RBTH ASIA Team
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju watch a performance by the Moranbong Band at the April 25 House of Culture in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 24, 2014.
Reuters
Articles and features about Russian for foreigners, a new Hanoi-Vladivostok direct flight, and a freight train route linking Harbin with Yekaterinburg were among the Asia-Pacific highlights on rbth.com.
Russian interests such as coal exports from North Korea and the Rajin-Khasan joint trade logistics project will not be affected the punitive sanctions on Pyongyang.
If Russia is to be taken seriously by ASEAN, first of all Vladimir Putin needs to get to know the grouping’s leaders personally. Otherwise it would be hard to add substance to their relationships.
Learning Russian may initially seem like a daunting task but there are ways to make the process a lot simpler. Russian people tend to be extremely tolerant of grammatical and other mistakes made by foreigners learning the language.
