North Korean envoy promises to stick with Russia until ‘victory’

Kim Jong-un’s gamble; For Kim Jong-un, the troop deployment to Russia is a high-stakes poker game.”

Seoul’s respected Korea Times added editorially

With boots on the ground alongside the supply of munitions, the DPRK has become the most visible, ardent, and committed supporter of Russia's aggression in Europe,

Hwang said on Wednesday

As legitimate military targets, they will end up as mere cannon fodder, while the wages they are supposed to receive from Russia will end up squarely in Kim Jong-un's pocket,

Hwang said of the Russia-bound North Korean troops

Pyongyang's treatment of its young soldiers, its own people, as expendable will be never forgiven,

he added