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New Russian suspect arrested in 2003 neo-Nazi murder of North Korean man

With the 22nd anniversary approaching, one expert examines why Russia revisited Kim Hyon Ik’s murder

New details on a neo-Nazi group’s brutal killing of a North Korean man were revealed earlier this month after Russian police charged an additional suspect in the decades-old hate crime case on the heels of growing law enforcement collaboration between Moscow and Pyongyang.

Not much is known about the victim — North Korea’s state-run media never reported on Kim’s death.

Archived Russian news reports at the time identifiedthe victim as 42-year-old Kim Hyon Ik, who had arrived at St. Petersburg’s main train station from Moscow, where he was born. He was found dead near the train station with over 20