March 28, 2024
Analysis

100,000 North Korean soldiers won’t fight in Ukraine. But a few dozen might.

The DPRK has deployed troops to foreign conflicts before, from the Vietnam War to the civil war in Syria

100,000 North Korean soldiers are poised to storm into Eastern Europe to aid their Russian brothers-in-arms, a move that could turn the tide in the “special military operation” against the “Ukrainian Nazis.”

Or at least that’s what defense pundit Igor Korotchenko would have you believe, in recent comments made to Russian state TV and picked up by news outlets around the world.

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