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U.K.’s Daily Mail Provides Ostensible ‘Proof’ of North Korean Troops in Kursk

After weeks of allegations, yesterday photographic evidence of North Korean troops being used by Moscow in the Ukraine conflict was finally produced—but the triumphalism quickly turned into dust.

The U.K.’s Daily Mail published a photograph of two women in uniforms, said to be in Zheleznogorsk, in the Kursk Region. Their names were given as “Wei and Lin,” and the two were said to have been sent by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “to fight as cannon fodder for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.”

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