The drone strike which killed Gen Soleimani dramatically raised tensions in the Middle East - but John Barry Kotch, who has served with the UN Command as an intelligence adviser to the South Korean Air Force, as well as working as a State Department consultant on Korea, said the raid will no have gone unnoticed in Pyongyang. Mr Kotch, writing in the South China Morning Post, said: “Political developments in the Middle East invariably reverberate in the Far East.”