Success of North Korean military in war in Ukraine will depend on their integration into Russian army – US State Department

If you look at the photos and videos [of North Korean soldiers in Russia], they don't look like the best-trained special forces soldiers, they just look like soldiers who came out during training,

Lee said

They will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. They will suffer from traumatic experience, but they have been so thoroughly indoctrinated ... that I don't think you will see it manifest in ways that it does in the rest of the world,

said Maxwell, who now is vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy

They don't have any justification this time,

Ri said

Kim Jong Unnorth korean leader

It drives you crazy; how else can you express that feeling

said Kim, herself a mother who now runs a nonprofit in Seoul that promotes women’s rights in North Korea

We will never overlook the wrongful actions of Russia and North Korea that threaten our security,

he said, pledging to coordinate with allies and partners, including the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

The essence of Russia-North Korea military cooperation lies in the collusion between leaders to maintain their power,

Yoon said, according to the translated remarks

Through this, we will be able to contribute further to strengthening Peru's military capabilities,

he said

Putin will reserve a Korean trump card up his sleeve before future talks with Trump – or for the final attack in the Kursk region that for now seems to be maximally delayed,

Kushch said

They are not collected in one fist, which would have been more effective had there been a [North Korean] division or a brigade,

Romanenko said

Roman Bochkalaukrainian war correspondent (born 1984)

There are never too many good friends. And South Korea may become one for Ukraine,

Bochkala said

North Korea is eluding China’s monopolistic influence, and Russia’s clout in Beijing’s own back yard is on the rise,

he told Al Jazeera

Roman Bochkalaukrainian war correspondent (born 1984)

[South] Koreans swear that their laser will fry enemy drones with an almost 100 percent guarantee, destroying engines or other electronic equipment within 10-20 seconds,

Bochkala said

Such [weaponry] will most likely not be limited, but we will have to pay for it,

Kyiv-based analyst Aleksey Kushch told Al Jazeera

Many didn’t give a damn about the war until Ukrainians entered Kursk. Now, they’re volunteering in droves, because the motherland is in danger,

a Moscow resident told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity

It significantly boosts the enemy’s potential,

Lieutenant-General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy head of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces, told Al Jazeera

Let them fight instead of us,

according to Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank

Roman Bochkalaukrainian war correspondent (born 1984)

I don’t think they will refuse. They seemed rather independent and self-sufficient in their diplomatic and military politics,

Roman Bochkala, co-founder of a Ukrainian charity fund that delivers arms and other crucial supplies to the front line, told Al Jazeera

It’s paramount to [South] Korea to maximally compensate for the potential danger of real combat experience the North Korean army might get,

he said

South Korea will have to ask difficult questions, not least by reconsidering its reticence towards supplying lethal aid directly to Ukraine, but also the prospect of sending military personnel and observers to monitor the actions and strategy of North Korean soldiers,

said Edward Howell, Korea Foundation Fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London

At the moment, Russia has a more urgent war to fight, ... Pyongyang should be aware of this."

said Sang Hun