How rising anti-American axis sees US weakness, and is ready to pounce

For anyone slow on the uptake, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un provided some helpful show-and-tell in Pyongyang on Wednesday.

A year ago, I warned that a new “Axis of Ill Will” was forming.

Now you get my drift.

Kim gave Putin a vintage 1930s reception, complete with vast flags, red carpets and temporarily well-fed children.

The two signed a pact committing themselves to mutual assistance in the event of “aggression” against either country.

Putin hinted at the “development of military-technical cooperation” — the least he can do in return for the dozens of ballistic missiles and 11,000 shipping containers of munitions that (according to US intelligence) Kim has sent him to carry on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.