North Korean soldiers in Ukraine: ‘Clear message from Putin’

Several thousand North Korean soldiers will fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. The exact number of soldiers from North Korea that will be deployed is still unclear: it is certainly 1,500 soldiers, earlier reports from various intelligence agencies spoke of 12,000 troops. Sending North Korean troops to Ukraine follows a pact made by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in June: they promised then that they would help each other if one of them...