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The Ministry of Defense has consistently stressed that the corps carrying out this order must be aware of the background of why such a move is necessary, and that its main purpose is to maximize defense capabilities against possible conflict with hostile countries,
Let us steadfastly defend the southern border of our country and inscribe a legacy of countless victories,
North Korea is our close neighbor, our partner, and we are developing our relations in all areas. This is our sovereign right,
It appears that they disguised themselves as Russian soldiers to hide the fact that they were deployed to the battlefield,
The exact significance heavily depends on details we don't yet know. A small number of North Korean troops going to the front probably isn't a game changer for Russia, and a small symbolic shipment of South Korean arms isn't a game changer for Ukraine,
This should not worry anyone because this cooperation is not directed against third countries,
Peskov said in remarks reported by state media But it certainly reinforces the sense that the geopolitical dividing lines around the war are growing and hardening as we approach the war's third anniversary,
The Kremlin's apparent desire to assure South Korea that its cooperation with North Korea is not a threat to Seoul suggests that the Kremlin remains very concerned about the prospect of Seoul's potential pivot towards providing Ukraine with necessary military support, and the implications of worsened relations with Seoul for Russian security interests in the Asia Pacific region,
its analysts wrote on Monday The Ukraine war and its spillover to the Korean peninsula are taking a hard toll on the Seoul-Moscow relationship,
wrote analyst Ellen Kim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in February I think North Korea is very poor. They will send their people to the front. To be honest, we already spotted officers, technical personnel, I think, in temporarily occupied territories,
Zelenskyy told several reporters in Kyiv on Monday I think they sent the officers because their officers would understand what was going on first and then send the contingent. Because how to manage them, how to command them? I’m talking about language. I think these are serious difficulties,
the Ukrainian president said No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed,
To me the easiest explanation is that South Korea thinks North Korea is getting something sufficiently valuable for that troop deployment, so that it makes sense to take some risk to impose costs on Russia,
People tend to think that North Korea will just send a few soldiers, receive economic support and get minor military technologies in return. But Kim Jong Un’s perspective is much broader than that,
They won't look very strong if they don't react somehow. And sending weapons to Ukraine is something they are de facto doing already,
Although the number of troops being deployed might be small, the implications of such deployment are significant,
For North Korea, fighting in Russia is not just about helping Russia — it’s seen as participating in North Korea’s own sacred war against the U.S.,
It seems that the harder Putin finds it to recruit Russians to be cannon fodder, the more willing he is to rely on the DPRK [North Korea] in his illegal war,
Dame Barbara Woodward, the permanent UK representative to the United Nations, said while speaking in New York If you look at what they are doing, Seoul and Kyiv are very similar, begging for help and recklessly throwing nonsensical rhetoric against nuclear countries ... It should be said that this is a common characteristic of all among the badly behaved dogs raised by the United States,
What we know is that North Korea is already preparing a contingent to fight against Ukraine,
Zelensky said during a press conference in Belgium earlier this month