Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un signed a complete strategic partnership treaty that commits each international locations to offer army help to one another if both is attacked.
In accordance with the pact, in case any one of many two sides is put in a state of conflict by a overseas invasion, the opposite facet shall present army and different help with all means in its possession at once.
The treaty doesn’t point out the present conflict and there’s no fast indication as but that North Korea will ship troops, however Pyongyang does plan to ship its army engineering unit to the occupied territories of Ukraine to undertake rebuilding work, Reuters reported citing South Korean TV Chosun channel. The troops being despatched to Ukraine will seemingly function abroad staff to earn laborious money for North Korea, the place the economic system is strangled by worldwide sanctions, in response to TV Chosun’s report.
Pyongyang has been supplying Russia with weapons since 2023, however the nation has by no means despatched combating troops in vital numbers to wage conflict in a battle past the Korean Peninsula.
In February Ukrainian authorities reported capturing down not less than 20 North Korean ballistic missiles Russia utilized in large assaults in opposition to Ukraine since final yr. North Korea has equipped greater than 11,000 containers of munitions to Russia since final fall, the Washington Put up reported.