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facing Kim Jong-un’s soldiers, kyiv hopes for help from Seoul

Although North Korea is “one of the poorest countries in the world, its military spending represents almost a quarter of its GDP”, noted Army Information, the information site of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which asks the question:

“What does the North Korean army look like?”

The answer: “A million men, Soviet equipment and nuclear weapons.” The site then recalls that, after President Volodymyr Zelensky, “NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said during a briefing in Brussels on October 28 that North Korean troops were already present in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.”

However, Pyongyang’s decision to send several thousand soldiers to Russia would not only cause concern in kyiv, but also in Seoul. Until then, underlines political scientist Rostyslav Mourzahoulov in an interview with the independent press agency Union, “South Korea was essentially neutral” in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Even if, specifies on its website the television channel Collaboratively, “it has already delivered non-lethal equipment to kyiv”, particularly in the crucial area of ​​mine clearance.

The nuclear threat

However, assures Mourzahoulov, from now on,

Swiss

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