Both Russia and North Korea have announced that they have a military alliance and that North Korean soldiers are training in Russia. Whether any North Korean troops have actually been deployed to fight against Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region, however, has little or nothing to do with any lack of manpower on the part of the Russian military; and were it to be going on, Moscow would have no need to hide such a deployment of North Koreans within Russia. However, the narratives out of Kiev, London, and Washington have been notably bizarre, but they have been employed to cover for the use of U.S. and British long-range missiles being fired into the internationally recognized borders of Russia.
Today, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked at his press conference in Brussels, about the evidence of North Korean troops’ involvement—as not one actual soldier has been found dead or captured alive. Zelenskyy began: “As for the North Korean military. So far, we have seen more than 12,000. I don’t know if the number recorded by our services will be higher, we’ll see. As for prisoners, there have been none so far. But we have videos and photos of dead North Korean soldiers.” It is of some note that the one video most circulated by Ukrainian circles is ridiculous, as there is nothing in it implicating North Koreans.
