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Russia war in Ukraine - Considerations on North Korean Troops

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“The communication of captured soldiers from North Korea with Ukrainian investigators continues. We are establishing the facts. We are checking all the details. The world will know the complete truth about how Russia uses such guys who grew up in a complete information vacuum, know nothing about Ukraine at all and are used by Russia solely to continue and expand this war.”

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President of Ukraine
14 Jan 2025 3 3
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Hwang Joon-kook
Hwang Joon-kook

“The Jan. 6 missile launch shows exactly where this blood money ends up. The DPRK sacrifices its own people to fulfill its nuclear ambitions and further contributes to deaths and destruction in Ukraine. North Korean troops, deployed to Russia, are essentially slaves to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who are brainwashed to sacrifice their lives on faraway battlefields to raise money for the Kim regime and secure advanced military technology from Russia. This is why I repeatedly emphasize that we need to look at both nuclear and human rights issues of the DPRK simultaneously at the Security Council. The human rights situation in the DPRK remains intrinsically linked to international peace and security.”

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Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
08 Jan 2025 11 2
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“I held a meeting of the Staff today, with a separate report from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi regarding the front. The Donetsk areas are the most intense, as well as Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv oblasts. [We discussed] details of Kursk Oblast's developments - the North Korean military is involved in the fighting. They have many losses. A great deal. And we can see that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers have no interest in the survival of these Koreans at all. Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners - their own people are executing them, there are such cases. And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection. Today we received reports on several soldiers from North Korea, our warriors managed to capture them. But they were seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated. This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of. The Korean nation should not lose its people in the battles in Europe. And this can be influenced, particularly by Korea's neighbors, especially China. If China is sincere in its statements that the war should not escalate, it must exert appropriate pressure on Pyongyang.”

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President of Ukraine
27 Dec 2024 15 10
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John Kirby
John Kirby

“I hope they're loading up their commanders with a bunch of body bags, because they're clearly going to need it. American officials also had reports that some North Korean soldiers had killed themselves rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces, likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they're captured. These North Korean soldiers appear to be highly indoctrinated, pushing attacks, even when it is clear that those attacks are futile.”

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White House national security spokesperson
27 Dec 2024 6 4
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Yevhen Yerin
Yevhen Yerin

“Russia's use of North Korean troops has not had a major impact on the battlefield. It is not such a significant number of personnel. They use tactics that are primitive, linked, frankly speaking, more to the times of the Second World War.”

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Spokesman for the Ukrainian military intelligence service
24 Dec 2024 5 4
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“There are risks of additional soldiers and military equipment being sent to the Russian army from North Korea, and we will have tangible responses to this. Now, according to preliminary data, the number of North Korean soldiers killed and injured in Kursk Oblast exceeds 3,000 people.”

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President of Ukraine
23 Dec 2024 7 6
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Park Sun-won
Park Sun-won

“The longer the war lasts, the deeper the ties between Russia and North Korea are likely to get. Moscow may grow more dependent on Pyongyang, and possibly transfer advanced technology that could be dangerous in the hands of Kim Jong-un. As Ukraine is in a state of war, they are engaged in psychological warfare just as Russia is. Some information [Ukraine suggests the North Korean contingent is much larger] out there is propaganda and not necessarily accurate. Our intelligence service is making the judgment on a combination of Ukrainian and other sources.”

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South Korean Politician - Member of a parliamentary intelligence committee
20 Nov 2024 6 2
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Han-bum Cho
Han-bum Cho

“U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that if North Korean troops join the fight, they will become legitimate targets. The primary targets of the ATACMS missiles are likely to be North Korean infantry in Russia's Kursk region, who are poorly armed. Even without the Trump factor, the war in Ukraine seems to have shifted to a phase of regional skirmishes focused on limited territorial gains, with a major expansion of the conflict looking unlikely. As the situation seems to be moving into a so-called 'control mode' with Trump's return, South Korea's rationale in providing military aid to Ukraine in response to North Korean troops could lack clarity.”

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Senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification
20 Nov 2024 11 5
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“We [Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya] also discussed that North Korea has now become Russia's accomplice and is helping Putin in this illegal war. I informed him about the North Korean military's activities in Kursk Oblast, about all the threats posed by Pyongyang and Moscow's cooperation. Russia is training North Korea in modern warfare, and this can cause a much wider destabilisation. We must counter this together and with all our other partners.”

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President of Ukraine
16 Nov 2024 9 2
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Kang Cheol-hwan
Kang Cheol-hwan

“The troop deployment to Russia is merely part of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's ruthless business strategy aimed at profiting from the war. North Korean troops sent to Russia are not elite army members. Kim Jong-un would benefit more from dispatching inexperienced soldiers to the front lines, as they will likely become cannon fodder. The more North Koreans die on the battlefield, the more money he stands to gain from Russia. Kim understands the value of specially trained forces better than any other dictator. Kim once remarked that one elite soldier is equivalent to 100 average soldiers in terms of military capability. He emphasized that their role is crucial in times of war. Kim is aware that the roughly 200,000 members of North Korea's special forces are a key military asset he can rely on. Therefore, he would never want to trade them away. If North Korea were to send elite troops to Russia, he knows his country would face dire consequences in the event of a contingency.”

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North Korean defector and journalist who operates two YouTube news channels
07 Nov 2024 8 4
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Kim Young-hee
Kim Young-hee

“I wonder if they are really special forces. They were quite different from the Storm Corps members that I know. The special forces are physically fit and athletic, as they are well-fed and receive specialized training. However, the soldiers I saw on TV looked malnourished, resembling ordinary soldiers I encountered in rural areas of North Korea.”

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North Korean escapee who earned her doctoral degree in North Korean Studies in the South
07 Nov 2024 6 3
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