North Korean soldiers ready to intervene alongside the Russians in Kursk

A « escalade grave »and « turning » which causes a « incredible worry » : in the United States, Europe and Ukraine, there has been no shortage of alarming reactions since North Korea's commitment to Russia's side against kyiv's troops was gradually confirmed. To China (read below) who seriously frowns at the unprecedented initiative of Kim Jong-un, the dynast who rules the very isolationist Hermit Kingdom: the sending by Pyongyang, for the first time, of its armed forces to a European battlefield.

Although still surrounded by imprecision, the information, distilled since October by security sources in Ukraine, South Korea and the United States, is now causing a real shock wave – whose intensity and consequences are weighed in all capitals. According to the New York Times (NOW) of November 12, which cites American and Ukrainian officials, the Russian army has already massed 50,000 soldiers…