Pyongyang Says It Will Send Troops to Ukraine Within a Month

Hmm sending a bunch of underfed brainwashed minions to the edge of the Western world where they can hear and see what the world is really like. If they survive of course. The ones that do return will have a different outlook on life. Wars always end up causing a mixture of cultures.

This could eventually lead to a more open North Korea. Though I'm still hoping for a future sane leader eventually like what happened to the soviets with Gorbachev.

Not sure how realistic this actually is.

NK prides itself on keeping its citizens as isolated as possible from the outside world.

If stationed in the Ukraine then they’re going to pick up an awful amount of information that will shake their worldview and I’d have thought making their reintegration back to the motherland exceptionally problematical at best.

Even the Russians will happily have fun with their NK “chums” shattering everything they’ve been taught - because, why not?

May be a feature for SK. Send aid to kill two birds with one stone?

Meanwhile China is mostly just enjoying the show.

Can't find a single other source that claims this, is it real?

There's just a sliver of land where North Korea and Russia share a border but it could unfortunately mean a lot for Russia's war with Ukraine.

Putin gets more boots on the ground and could potentially lessen the number of dead Russians to explain back home. Kim has more than enough boots to spare and gets a steady supply of resources for his resource-starved country, eg. food and raw manufacturing materials.

Two pariah states pooling their resources. Goes along with the Iranian tech Russia has been using so far.

Let's see. Putin doesn't have enough ammunition. He doesn't have enough tanks. He doesn't have enough troops. So he's importing ammunition, importing troops, and pulling tanks from the 1970s out of storage.

He could impose a conscription, but he hasn't. I suspect he can't - not without causing pushback. And he doesn't want that, because once the pushback starts, it may not stop...

So I think Putin is maxed out. This may not be as much as he can get out of Russia, but it's as much as he dares.

Interesting times intensifies.

Sounds like a great opportunity to defect.

Cannon fodder is nice and all, but Putin’s overtures to North Korea might lead South Korea to finally start sending military hardware to Ukraine which would be a game changer, considering S Korea is one of the cheapest and most effective manufacturers of many NATO weapons.