Russia and Ukraine may have reached a deal to calm tensions that capped by Moscow’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula, but Russia’s actions show what lengths it will go to defend its interest, even in defiance of world opinion.

Would it be willing to do the same on the Korean Peninsula?

Much like in Russia’s intervention in Georgia in 2008, Moscow’s Ukraine intervention struck at a pro-EU, pro-NATO government in a neighboring states. With few military options for confronting Russia, the West has responded with sanctions that have taken a tollon the Russian economy but which have, so far,