Vladimir Putin visited North Korea and is currently in Vietnam on another state visit. While the ties with Vietnam are not expected to change anything fundamentally, the visit to North Korea really shows that we are in a new era of multi-polarity, this is first and foremost a big step forward out of international isolation for Pyongyang. Of course, western press is again being absolutely stupid about it, even resurrecting the “Russia is running out of ammunition” myth from like 2 years ago to gaslight western audiences about why this is happening. Let’s take a look at what is actually going on.