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North Korean troops set to join Russian army as Pyongyang ‘fully enters’ war (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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A battalion of 3,000 North Korean soldiers will shortly join Russian troops in fighting Ukraine, marking Pyongyang’s full entry into the war.

Intelligence sources said the unit has been secretly training in Russia’s Far East ahead of deployment as part of a Russian airborne regiment.

“They are called the Buryat Battalion,” a senior Ukrainian military source told Politico. Buryatia is a remote region of Russia bordering Mongolia that the Kremlin has targeted heavily for military recruitment.

The Kyiv Independent quoted another Western intelligence source claiming that North Korea had sent 10,000 soldiers to join the Russian army.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 14 hours ago

Ukraine's about to get a lot of defectors...

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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 88 points 15 hours ago

Ok, it's only fair if Poland gets to join too.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 26 points 14 hours ago

Better give Poland some nukes for parity

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 50 points 13 hours ago

If the invasion of Ukraine hasn't taught everyone that the only way to not get invaded is to have nukes I don't know what will.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 51 points 12 hours ago

Seriously - I’m genuinely baffled at the complete geopolitical ineptitude that occurred in 2014. It was a categorical abrogation of the Budapest Memorandum, which guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty in exchange for their surrender of old Soviet nukes based in their territory.

Nobody is going to make a deal like that going forward. The nuclear non-proliferation movement is entirely dead. Nukes are, categorically, the absolute final word in guaranteeing a country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. There is no substitute. Genuinely, the complete and total lack of meaningful action in the defense of Ukraine was the most apocalyptically stupid geopolitical move that Obama and Merkel made during their stints as leaders of the western world.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Yup. Going to hell in a hand basket.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

good point. Loading up ukraine with nukes would have created a serious problem for russia. The problem is it would have given Ukraine independence from the US as well.

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[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Send the Poles, they're itching for it

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago

Hopefully this isn't the stsrt of turning this into a larger conflict that spills into other countries.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Wait for US fighting Iran and these two wars merging.

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[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

This is exactly that

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 16 points 14 hours ago

I wonder how many of them are going to just defect?

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 14 hours ago

So far 18 of the advance party. Unverified by Russia and North Korea though.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Hahaha

[+] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world -10 points 10 hours ago

So one intelligence source says 10,000 have already been sent, and another says 3,000 will soon be sent.

These are just rumours. Inconsistent rumours.

This is clickbait for a paywalled article.

[+] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world -15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Another story I saw says that North Korean troops were spotted in the Russian military. How could an observer know they were Korean? Were they wearing a Korean uniform? And if so, why haven’t we seen any photos of that? Ukrainians have cameras, right?

Is this just a case of Ukrainians not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans?

Edit: Come to think of it, it’s more likely a case of Americans not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans.

I can only imagine their shock when they eventually learn that Russia, a country that spans all of north Asia, has Asians in it.

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