Lhe Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused his allies of passivity in the face of the mobilization of North Korean soldiers in Russia, Friday November 1. He also again called for permission to use long-range weapons on Russian soil instead of “waiting for the North Korean army to start hitting the Ukrainians.”
The day before, the United States had revealed that 10,000 North Korean soldiers had entered Russia, of which 8,000 “had been deployed in the Kursk region”, on the border with Ukraine. “Now we see all the sites where Russia brings together these North Korean soldiers on its territory, all their camps. We could strike preemptively, if we had the ability to strike far enough,” Zelensky said in his daily address, accusing his allies of “just waiting for the North Korean army to start hitting the Ukrainians” instead of provide long-range weapons “which it badly needs”.ALSO READ War in Ukraine: North Korea ensures its support for Russia until “victory”On Thursday, October 31, the Ukrainian president attacked the “zero” reaction of Westerners to the deployment of North Korean soldiers and the internationalization of the war.
This Friday, Washington announced new military aid to Ukraine amounting to $425 million which includes air defense equipment, artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons, detailed the US Department of Defense in a press release. However, both Americans and Europeans are still preventing kyiv from using the missiles they have delivered on targets on Russian territory, for fear of provoking an escalation by the Kremlin. However, for kyiv, it is the absence of Western firmness which encourages Vladimir Putin to escalate.
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On the Korean peninsula, the situation is worrying. North Korea's foreign minister has announced that the country will side with Russia until its “victory” in Ukraine. The two countries have grown considerably closer since the start of the conflict, even signing a mutual defense agreement last June. In addition, North Korea has been suspected for many months of supplying large quantities of shells to Russia as well as hundreds of missiles.
In this context, South Korea, a major arms exporter, announced that it was studying the possibility of sending weapons directly to Ukraine “depending on the evolution of military cooperation between the Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Russia,” reports The Korea Times. Military aid which would be added to the financial and humanitarian aid already provided. In addition, a team of South Korean observers must go on the ground to monitor the activities of enemy troops.
