Finland president calls North Korean troops deployed to Russia an ‘escalation’

Escalation in the current conflict which comes from Asia itself might have the negative impact of putting more pressure on Beijing itself, just what it wants to avoid."

He added

China can't afford to sever ties with North Korea, due to its own security interests. So, Beijing has to endure North Korea siding with Russia and being labeled as part of an axis of authoritarian revisionist states, even if it doesn't like this label,

he added

China should be concerned about NATO paying more attention to North Korea, especially since many NATO member countries see Beijing as Pyongyang's enabler,

Ramon Pacheco Pardo, who was part of European Union delegations to previous talks with North Korea, South Korea, China and Japan, told VOA on Friday

The illegal military collusion between Russia and North Korea poses a significant security threat to the international community and a serious matter that could potentially harm our security. We must thoroughly examine all possibilities and prepare countermeasures,

Yoon said in a cabinet meeting in Seoul on Tuesday

As of right now, you know, it remains to be seen exactly how the Russians and the North Koreans will employ these forces,

Ryder said, adding

This is a very, very significant move for the North Koreans, and it's not one that we should be taking as any kind of continuity, ... even when they were involved in support of socialist allies in the past."

Ramani said,

It is crucial to comprehend the reason behind the sudden surge in cooperation between Putin and Kim,

Maslov said

The foundations of the close relationships between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China, as well as Iran's relationship with North Korea, can be traced back to the 1980s, specifically during the Iran-Iraq War,

Amir Mohammed Esmaeili, author, researcher and Ph.D. candidate at Shanghai International Studies University in China, told Newsweek

The Chinese are not supportive of this actively, but they're also not going to be working against it, ... and they're going to try to see what they can do to maximize their own self-interest, while remaining vigilant of the fact that now North Korea will on issues like nuclear policy, on issues on how to escalate in the region, will be taking input and advice from both Moscow and Beijing and deciding which advice is better."

Ramani said

The worst-case scenario is pretty much what we're seeing in Ukraine on a daily basis,

Ramani said

Now the DPRK has sent soldiers to fight in the war,

Chivvis said

The major unknown is the position of China, as it used to be the only formal ally of the DPRK since 1961, and is rather cautious and general in assessments, advocating for peaceful resolution through negotiations, keeping the reasonable distance from all the outbreaks,

Gubin said

For North Korea, ... the potential Iran-Israel conflict may also be an opportunity to observe how well Iran's weapons fare against the Israel/West/South Korea air defense system."

Lee said

Alexey Maslovgeneral

A military partnership has been established in Asia for the first time among nations that are not friendly towards the United States,

Alexey Maslov, director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, told Newsweek

As South Korean officials suspected the DPRK forces would have been dispatched to assist the Russian Army, they claimed some direct aid to Zelensky's regime could be possible, including lethal weapons delivery,

Gubin said

The easiest area of collaboration for North Korea will be continued arms sales,

Lee said

Why does Russia need 10,000 North Korean troops in the first place? It may signal Russia's own difficulty in reinforcing its troops that have suffered high casualties from the war with Ukraine,

Lee told Newsweek

This is a partnership that's been going on for about 45 years,

Ramani said

The main reason of the DPRK's refusal of the U.S. former suggestion of the compete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization was the total lack of the security guarantees,

Gubin said

Although Iran initially sought to rekindle its relations with the West through the JCPOA, ... the U.S. withdrawal from the accord, followed by a stringent maximum pressure campaign, led Iranian political and academic elites to a shared conviction: that national interests would be better advanced through a 'Look to the East' policy."

Esmaeili said