Monday, April 28, 2025

N. Korea Confirms Sending Troops to Help Russia

North Korea admitted for the first time that it has sent troops to fight for Russia in the war with Ukraine.

Posted by LampLighter at 08:32 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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BREAKING President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the "feat" of Pyongyang's troops in helping wrest back the area held by Ukraine in Russia's Kursk region

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-- AFP News Agency (@afpnews.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM

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... US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed the importance of the coming week for reaching an agreement with Russia and Ukraine to halt the fighting.

US President Donald Trump, for his part, said he thought Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ready to give up Crimea, a territory that Russia occupied in 2014.

Zelenskyy, meanwhile, said his troops are still fighting in Kursk, despite Moscow claiming that it regained control of the entire region. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-28 12:04 AM

Could this new revelation be why this happened?

US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine (February 2025)
www.bbc.com

... The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.

First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow's actions and supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity -- voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-28 12:07 AM

Why does Russia want or need help?
I keep hearing they are guaranteed to win the war of attrition.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-28 10:14 AM

At least those NK guys will get a full meal before getting shot in the head. In their homeland they have to steal to eat...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-28 12:22 PM

admitted? As if they did something wrong?

North Korean troops were deployed on Russian soil under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Moscow and Pyongyang, which came into force last December. The treaty provides for mutual military assistance in the event of an attack, pledging immediate support "by all means available" under Article 51 of the UN Charter.

#5 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-28 02:25 PM

Is Trump going to offer North Korea a little chunk of Ukraine? Ukraine started it, right?

#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-04-28 02:30 PM

The Central Military Commission said that the evolving military situation had triggered Article 4 of the treaty with Moscow. Based on this analysis, Kim Jong-un personally decided to deploy North Korean troops to Russia and notified the Kremlin.

Look under your seats! Article 4! Article 4 for everybody!!

#7 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-28 02:30 PM

In their homeland they have to steal to eat...

#4 | Posted by catdog

I heard they sleep and poo on the sidewalk, and their drug abuse is so rampant they do it right out in public.

#8 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-28 02:36 PM

#8 | POSTED BY CHILIGORDO

People like you are how we know Trump is failing.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-28 03:05 PM

and their drug abuse is so rampant they do it right out in public.

#8 | Posted by chiligordo

Drugs should be abused in the Tesla CEO's office and nowhere else right?

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-28 06:42 PM

Putin and Kim and Xi and trump working together.
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
With an assist from the Iranian ayatollahs. Which is probably why trump told them they could keep their nuclear program.

#11 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-28 07:53 PM

Admitted??

Is North Korea talking about the cannon fodder they already sent . . or is this new cannon fodder that we're just now learning about?

I seem to remember that North Korea recalled what was left of their original deployment because . . . well, because of high losses as a result of North Korean troops being used by Russia as front line cannon fodder.

Whoda thunk it?

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-29 05:39 AM

"admitted? As if they did something wrong?"

Sending trops to help Russia in an unprovoked war that violates treaties Russia agreed to? That makes N.Korea's troops really just government owned mercenaries available to go to other nations and murder the citizens just as a favor for Putin, Despicable! I hope every N. Korean returns home in a body bag which probably will be their fate. Just cheap cannon fodder for Putin's war to gratify his own ego.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-29 12:38 PM

North Korea admits that their soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. NK tell us something we do not know. Have you declared war on Ukraine or are you just waiting for daddy Vlad to tell you to do so? Come on Ukrainian soldiers kill them all that come into your gun sights and let god sort out which are real "commies" or just poor schmucks that got caught up in the Pig Kim's tyranny against his own people. Kill them all and their orc buddies that dare invade your free country.

#14 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-04-29 02:15 PM

I keep hearing they are guaranteed to win the war of attrition.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-28 10:14 AM | Reply

See the red dots creeping forward?

They are guaranteed to win the war of attrition.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-04-29 02:32 PM

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