North Korea sent troops to clear mines in Russia’s Kursk region earlier this year, leader Kim Jong-un said in a speech carried on Saturday by state media, a rare acknowledgement by Pyongyang of the deadly tasks assigned to its deployed soldiers.
According to South Korean and western intelligence agencies, North Korea has sent thousands of troops to support Russia’s nearly four-year invasion of Ukraine.
Analysts say Russia is giving North Korea financial aid, military technology, food and energy supplies in return, allowing the diplomatically isolated nation to sidestep tough international sanctions on its nuclear and missile programmes.
Inb4 all the tankies show up and say this is Western propaganda while also including the same data in their arguments that NK is actually a totally free country and its citizens totally freely leave the country all the time and keep all the profit they make outside the country for themselves.
That they’re never exploited by their leader who also happened s to be democratically elected every year. But also he’s a dictator but only a dictator because its the West’s fault.
Also the concentration camps he sends his people to are the West’s fault too.