The coalition of criminals together with Putin currently includes North Korea — the Kim family, which enslaves more than 20 million of the Korean people. Our intelligence records not only the transfer of weapons from North Korea to Russia but also the transfer of people,
Real stealth soldiers. Everyone talks about the Koreans, but no one has seen them,
These are workers for Russian factories, instead of Russians killed in the war, and personnel for the Russian army. This is the participation of the second state in the war against Ukraine on the side of Russia,
Russia and North Korea have an agreement that is basically a military alliance, so it is highly likely that North Korea would send additional troops,
This might even be a driving factor behind sending North Korean soldiers — to provide them with diverse experiences and wartime training,
Such a move would also indicate a new level of desperation for Russia as it continues to suffer significant casualties on the battlefield in its brutal war against Ukraine,
That’s different because they are providing capabilities and – open-source reporting – there’s manpower that is also over there,
Everyone sees the Iranian regime's support for Putin, as well as China's cooperation with Russia. Despite their statements, Beijing has refrained from taking any serious, effective steps to stop Putin, halt aggression, and address Russia's violations of the UN Charter,
That kind of feedback from a real battlefield to North Korea to be able to make adjustments to their weapons, their ammunition, their capabilities, and even their people — to me, is very concerning,
There are undoubtedly three classes of North Korean personnel in Russia at the present time,
So have Western air defense systems been successful? If so, which ones? Anything they can find out about the equipment, its vulnerabilities, operational procedures,
It has been a pattern: When North Korea has sold weapons to countries at war, they sent personnel not only to help those countries use the weapons, but often also to fight there themselves,
There's only so many advisors that Russia can use,
The North Koreans are having an incredible, unique opportunity to do that. And they're getting paid to do it,
There's a wide interest in the world to use the conflict in Ukraine as a laboratory for what's going to work in future conflicts,
Finally, there are munitions experts,
It's a win-win situation,
North Korea has, in fact, entered the war,
If now the story starts circulating in North Korea that some of their elite kids are being killed, boy, those families are not going to be happy,
We are concerned by the reports of DPRK soldiers fighting on behalf of Russia,