North Korea and Russia have signed a digital communications cooperation deal. It aims to step up the Kremlin’s digital authoritarianism and internal repression, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). On October 30, North Korea’s Ministry of Information Technology and Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media signed a cooperation agreement covering telecommunications, information technology, and digital development. The ISW recalled that Russia and North Korea signed a cooperation agreement between their respective prosecutors general in July. Foll…