Japan Times
North Korea shocked the world by sending more than 10,000 troops to Russia for its war against Ukraine — Pyongyang’s first deployment of troops for large-scale combat since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
“One of the benefits that Putin surely hopes to gain from this deepening cooperation with North Korea is an increasing ability to leverage North Korea’s industry and industrial production that, I think will have important ramifications — not only for the war in Ukraine, but also all over the Asia-Pacific and frankly, in Europe as well,” according to Kimberly Kagan, president and founder of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a research group that publishes daily updates on the Ukraine conflict.
