After a few cat and mouse days of Defense Secretary Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin’s denials, the Pentagon finally yesterday affirmed that there was evidence of a North Korean military presence in Russia. Asked what they were doing in Russia, Austin replied, “What exactly they are doing? Left to be seen. These are things that we need to sort out.”
Previously:
Ukraine urges North Korean soldiers to surrender, offering food, shelter
The AFU is supposedly learning the Korean language as well.
Related:
Trolling on the front-line of Donbass (DPRK)
Pentagon-Linked Think Tank Proposes Disinfo Campaign Against Russia, North Korea
Days before a flurry of evidence-free reports emerged that North Korea sent 10,000 soldiers to help Russia in Ukraine, a Pentagon-linked think tank proposed a disinfo campaign aimed at DPRK & Russia.
Pentagon-Linked Think Tank Proposes Disinfo Campaign Against Russia, North Korea
Related:
A Russia–North Korea Alliance in the Works? Don’t Be So Sure
What Should the United States Do?
Given the differences in the objectives of Russia, China, and North Korea, the United States should be mounting major information operations against these three countries to highlight their differences and fuel distrust among them. Doing so would increase the likelihood of decoupling at least some of their partnerships. Some examples of potential information operations seem obvious.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun claimed during a parliamentary session earlier this week that Pyongyang could send its forces to fight for Russia after it signed a mutual security treaty with Moscow. He claimed such a deployment is “highly likely” and suggested that some North Korean soldiers may have already been killed in the Ukraine conflict.
“This looks like another hoax,” Peskov replied when asked to comment on Seoul’s allegations during a press briefing.
Previously:
Missile Strike Near Donetsk Eliminates 6 North Korean Officers?
Missile Strike Near Donetsk Eliminates 6 North Korean Officers – Intel
The Center for National Resistance (CNR) reported in September 2023 that Russia was planning to bring North Korean citizens to the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk for construction work.
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The CNR assessed that the North Koreans were invited to ensure the supply of labor in these regions, as the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine has resulted in a labor shortage throughout Russia and the occupied territories.
Kiev is claiming to have killed military officers from the DRPK, based on a Telegram post. I didn’t see it covered outside of Ukrainian media, but Kyiv Post admits that the DPRK sent workers to help with post-war reconstruction. I haven’t seen any confirmation from Russian or DPRK media, either. Most likely, they hit the workers.
North Korea Sends Workers to Russia-Occupied Territory in Eastern Ukraine
North Korea recently sent workers to the Russian-occupied Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to help with reconstruction efforts, Daily NK has learned. Russia has set up and annexed two so-called republics on Ukrainian territory in the Donbas region: the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic. Only a a few other governments in the world recognize the DPR and LPR, including North Korea as well as Syria.
Juche Necromancy: Fabricated Executions In the DPRK
None of this is to say that there have never been executions or that there aren’t issues within the DPRK that need to be addressed. Those issues, however, should be addressed by the people of Korea and should not in any way be decided by western powers. That being said, there’s a pattern of disinformation here that everybody needs to be aware of. Western powers and media are consistently spreading lies about the DPRK among other places including Venezuela and China as a means of trying to build popular support for political and economic attacks as a means of instigating regime change. The US wants to create puppet governments and they will do try to do that in whatever way they see necessary.
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