Information that is currently difficult to verify is circulating on social networks in Ukraine about the presence of North Korean troops alongside Russian forces. On October 14, President Volodymyr Zelensky himself spoke “North Korea’s actual involvement in the war”, indicates on its website the television channel Espresso.
The channel wanted to know more, and recalls in a long article that “since the start of the all-out war in Ukraine, collaboration between Russia and North Korea has significantly strengthened.” Pyongyang “supplied and continues to supply Moscow with millions of artillery shells for the war in Ukraine, in exchange for food, energy and military technology.” But for some time now, “this collaboration has reached a new level. It’s no longer just about shells, North Korean soldiers are starting to prepare for war against the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Returning to the reasons for this involvement, Espresso considers that he “It must be understood that North Korea appeared thanks to the efforts of the Soviet Union. In 1945, it was the USSR that helped establish Kim Il-sung’s communist regime in North Korea, and later
