Expected summit between Putin and Kim Jong-un is ‘bad news for absolutely everybody else’

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Open this photo in gallery: A screen shows a news report with a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Sept. 8.Lee Jin-man/The Associated Press To the extent that anything the world’s two most dangerous dictators do is predictable, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in the days ahead, just as both are escalating their confrontations with the West. Such meetings have happened before. Moscow, after all, has been backing the Kim dynasty ever since Joseph Stalin anointed Mr. Kim’s grandfather to head the...