Globally it’s no good news.
North Korean soldiers are making their way to Ukraine to fight alongside the Russian army.
That is the “grim reality”, said Edward Howell in The Spectator, after South Korea’s intelligence agency confirmed what many had long suspected.
The move represents a “huge” escalation risk, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha warned over the weekend. While the numbers are small compared to the millions of people involved in the overall war effort, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that any third country wading into the conflict in Ukraine would be “the first step to a world war”.
What North Korean troops are involved?
Around 1,500 troops from North Korea’s special forces have already been deployed to Russia en route to Ukraine, a number that could eventually rise to 10,000, according to Zelenskyy.