News that troops from North Korea could be joining Russians on the battlefield in Ukraine has caused deep concern in Seoul
he video is grainy but the message is clear. The clip, posted by NK News, purports to show North Korean soldiers in green fatigues receiving basic supplies at a training base in Russia’s east, ahead of joining Vladimir Putin’s war against
On Friday, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said North Korean troops were expected to arrive on Sunday and Monday on the frontline in Russia’s western Kursk oblast. He cited “intelligence information” and an update from Ukraine’s commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi. On Friday, the South voiced “grave concern” after Russia moved to ratify its defence treaty with North Korea, calling again on Moscow to stop its “illegal cooperation” with Pyongyang.This week, media reports said the South was considering sending officials to Ukraine to offer intelligence on North Korean battlefield tactics and take part in interrogations of captured North Korean troops.
The appetite in Seoul for more robust support for Ukraine is growing, even if it raises the prospect of South Korean weapons being used to kill North Korean soldiers in a war taking place thousands of miles away. Seven decades after their three-year conflict ended in a truce and the creation of the world’s most heavily armed border, North and South Korea are fighting a proxy war in Europe, according to Ramon Pacheco Pardo, professor of international relations at King’s College London.
“North Korea can also gain income and assistance to its missile and nuclear programmes from Russia,” Jonsson said, adding that it would enable the North’s propaganda machine to claim, however fancifully, that its military might is a match for that of the US.
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