Significant shift is significant bullsh*t

Editor's note: Here's some bullshit news for readers. The Pentagon under its head boss Lloyd Austin claims thousands of North Korean soldiers are now in Russia preparing to be sent to fight in Ukraine. This story was run by The Moscow Times, and there is no telling who edits this news source, so the Russians are either shilling the US military which is doubtful, or this story is bullshit coming out of western media sources. The Moscow Times is simply vomiting out fake news from Agence France-Presse (AFP), so this news seems to be just plain nonsense being exploited by the Pentagon for their continued proxy war on Russia. What is astonishing is that the Russians allow The Moscow Times to stay in business.
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North Korea Troop Deployment Locks in Russia Military Alliance

By Claire Lee for AFP | October. 19, 2024

North Korea's decision to deploy thousands of soldiers to Ukraine's front lines cements Pyongyang's contentious military alliance with Moscow, experts told AFP, and pulls Russia deeper into Korean peninsula security.

About 1,500 North Korean special forces soldiers are already in Russia acclimatizing, likely to head to the front lines soon, Seoul's spy agency said Friday, with thousands more troops set to depart imminently, Pyongyang's first such deployment overseas.

The move demonstrates that the military deal signed by North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, which included a mutual defense clause, was not just for show.

"This establishes a framework where Russia's intervention or military support will automatically occur if North Korea is attacked or faces a crisis," Hong Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP.

The fact that North Korean soldiers will fight alongside Russia in Ukraine proves how "solid" the Putin-Kim deal really is, Hong said.

And the boost of troops from Pyongyang could help Moscow to hold "occupied territories or aid in further territorial gains," he added.

North Korea Sending 'Large-Scale' Troop Deployments to Fight in Ukraine War, Seoul Says

North and South Korea remain technically at war as the 1950 to 1953 conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace deal. But while Kim has built up a nuclear arsenal, Seoul lacks nukes of its own.

The South is protected by the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella and Seoul and Washington routinely conduct large-scale joint military drills, which infuriate Pyongyang.

By sending troops to Russia, Kim could be hoping to create a more integrated North Korean and Russian military deterrent, akin to the U.S.-South Korea alliance, potentially "resulting in a significant shift" in the Koreas' security dynamics, Hong said.

'Significant shift'

Ukraine's state-run Center for Strategic Communication on Friday released a video that purportedly shows North Korean soldiers in what looks like a Russian military camp preparing to join Moscow's war in Ukraine.

In the footage, one of the soldiers appeared to say "move over" to his colleagues with a North Korean accent.

Seoul's spy agency told AFP that it was "inappropriate" for them to comment on materials released by another country's government.

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