Several new developments point to the fact that New Delhi is undeterred by any pressures from the Western world and has followed an independent foreign policy driven more by realpolitik and less by the moral high ground of democracy to engage the military regime in Myanmar. New Delhi has thus made great friends in Myanmar.
North Korea’s defiance has culminated in a seismic wave of around 4.2 in the Richter scale, but its politico-strategic ramifications are beyond calculation. The episode has provided sufficient fodder for the strategic community to interpret vividly the nomenclature of clandestine proliferation, possible actions and reactions of the stakeholders, and the current state of the global nuclear order. However, it should be understood that Pyongyang’s case is not a single phenomenon.