“I think even our country [North Korea] can’t make its people run around a danger zone to earn money, no matter how important the cash is,” a source in North Korea was quoted telling the Daily NK.
“This is because they were going to rush the workers over if Russia quickly ended the war and expanded its liberated zones, but the war isn’t going as well as they thought,” a source in North Korea was quoted telling the newspaper.
Instead, Pyongyang has reportedly decided to appease Russia by sending military and security personnel to eastern Ukraine. A source cited byon Thursday said the North Korean government on Jan. 20 ordered several of its trading companies located in Russia to pick out personnel to be sent to the occupied territories.
The move comes just a few days after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s sister bizarrely praised Russia’s military prowess and blasted the “vile” U.S. decision to send Ukraine battle tanks. While Ukrainian defense officials warn that Moscow may launch a renewed offensive in the next few weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly has a whole team of minions drafting a highly anticipated speech he is expected to deliver to the upper house of parliament in late February., Putin will use the speech to double down on his provably false claim that the war against Ukraine enjoys “unconditional support” from Russian society.
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