Indeed, the North lets few diplomatic occasions pass without strong-arming its interlocutors for more. For Kim Jong-un, even a meeting with Japanese officials in Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital, to discuss the return of Japanese women who went to North Korea with their Korean husbands thinking that they were journeying to a socialist paradise, served as a platform to secure food aid from Japan.
事实上，朝鲜基本上不会错过任何外交机会在对话者身上充分榨取好处。就拿金正恩来说吧，就连与日本官员在乌兰巴托的会面——本来目的是讨论遣返带着奔赴社会主义天堂的美好愿望与朝鲜丈夫共同前往朝鲜的日本妇女的问题——也可以被他用作保证从日本获得粮食援助的平台。