North Korean soldiers soon to be sent to Ukraine?
The information comes from Seoul but is taken very seriously, as much by the kyiv press as by that of Moscow. According to a South Korean official wishing to remain anonymous, Pyongyang is preparing in the coming days to send its soldiers to the Ukrainian front to lend a hand to the Russian army. This would then be the first concrete consequence of “L’joint assistance agreement in the event of military aggression” signed with great fanfare by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un on June 19.
According to this senior official, it would essentially be a matter of “engineering troops” who will devote themselves to reconstruction and fortification work in the occupied territories of Donbass; each of these soldiers would receive a monthly pay of 800 US dollars, which would constitute a considerable foreign exchange income for the Pyongyang regime, he continued, quoted by the South Korean private television channel TV Chosun.
These assertions, to date unverifiable on the ground, have found wide resonance among the two warring parties. The influential t
