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Everyone is just waiting for the North Korean military to start attacking Ukrainians,
Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram Yes, I think so. It was a clash.”
Asked if the engagement meant North Korea had officially joined the war, Umerov replied We expect more engagements in the coming weeks,
We got rations, and as far as I heard those are for the brigade'',
one Russian soldier moaned The first North Korean troops have already been shelled, in the Kursk region,
Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraine’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram A stronger position by (Ukraine’s Western) allies is needed,
All indications are that they will provide some type of combat or combat support capability,
said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder We've not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days,
Putin has not confirmed the North Korean deployment but he hinted at it last month, indicating it fell under the security provisions in the treaty,
We will know soon" how
one of the officials told the FT The first military personnel from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have already come under fire in the Kursk region
the head of Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, wrote on Telegram on Monday North Korea is on record as having fought for Russia. If there ever is a war on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea can now expect Russia to come and help,
What's killing the Ukrainians is Russian artillery and really what I mean by that is North Korean artillery,
he told Newsweek, referring to the millions of rounds of ammunition Pyongyang has provided Moscow Putin anticipates that the presence of North Koreans will force Washington to issue further restrictions on Ukraine to prevent escalation,
geopolitical analyst and Ukrainian military veteran Viktor Kovalenko told Newsweek However, Kyiv continues striking Russian troops inside Ukraine and in the Kursk region, suggesting that the elimination of North Korean forces along them would not result in an unusual escalation,
North Korea is not necessarily wanting to back away from the relationship at the moment because it’s given a lifeline as well as a hedge partner against China,
said Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London This tells us a lot about what Kim is prepared to do to receive key military and space technologies. It remains to be seen whether Moscow is prepared to provide all the technologies and support Kim wants. If it does not, it will leave the North Korean ruler in a very difficult position.”
Kim Jong Un’s willingness to take these risks suggests he is ‘all in’ on the relationship with Moscow and prepared to make important sacrifices to show support for his Russian patron, in the hope that doing so will yield the benefits he seeks.”
Evans Revere, a former State Department official with extensive experience negotiating with North Korea, said I never believed this was short term, at least from the North Korean perspective,
said Cha, who formerly served as the deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the Six Party Talks with North Korea We’ve long thought of North Korea as a rogue state, but the tight cooperation between Putin and Kim Jong Un now makes Russia look like a rogue state, too,
said Stephen Sestanovich, senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union from 1997 to 2001.
