Summer 2014 witnessed new examples of deepening Russian involvement into North Korea and her increased efforts to help improve North-South relations. Obviously the “Russian card” is approved at the highest level in Pyongyang – in an apparent attempt to show to China that Pyongyang has alternative supporters. The change in attitude was demonstrated by the fact that Russian companies during the recent Russia-DPRK intergovernmental commission in June in Vladivostok were promised a better investment climate that anybody else (multiple visas, local phones, access to local legislation, Internet and other means of communication, etc).

What is principally important is that Russia