Leader praises his soldiers for turning ‘danger zone into a safe one’ during ceremony in Pyongyang welcoming them back from Ukraine war

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.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 小时前

    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.

    • menas@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      221·
      9 小时前

      No, military actions started with the occupation of Crimea in 2014. So not 3, but 11 years ago

      • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
        31·
        8 小时前

        Any agreement, treaty or capitulation will serve Russia a better staging point for its next “Special Operation”.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          At this point when my daughter is a teenager she will probably start hearing about special military operations in Poland.

      • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        9 小时前

        i knew russia’s military was trash but DAMN 11 years and they’re still in this quagmire? they make us americans look responsible

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          7 小时前

          They did have a shoddy ceasefire agreement from 2015 onwards where the “little green men” totally not anything to do with Russia fought in Donbas, until Russia invaded properly again in 2022. So technically 11 years 9 months, but seriously only for around four.