Are Canberra or Sydney in Kim Jong Un’s crosshairs? Two recent reports have put DPRK-Australia relations in the spotlight. And, as usual, Pyongyang is firing off mixed messages.

A month ago, on September 24, the Foreign Affairs Committee of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), which once a year purports to be a legislature, sent what it called an “open letter to parliaments of different countries.”

As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pithily noted, this document is basically a rant against Donald Trump. But however naively, or more likely disingenuously, it was couched as an appeal for solidarity.

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