While addressing lawmakers at parliamentary hearings, the minister recalled that Russia and North Korea signed a mutual agreement akin to a military alliance.
“Since Russia and North Korea signed a mutual agreement similar to a military alliance, the possibility of such a deployment (sending troops to Ukraine – ed.) is very likely,” the minister said.
In particular, he added that recent report of dead DPRK servicemen in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine is probably also “true”.
There are already North Korean military in Ukraine
Commenting on the statement of the Minister of Defense, head of the Center for Counting Disinformation Andrei Kovalenko addedthat North Korea has already sent a limited number of its military to Ukraine, mainly engineers, who monitor the quality and use of Pyongyang weapons by Russian terrorists.
“Some have already died. The ammunition and the KN23 ballistic missiles are mostly of low quality, as these servicemen report to Kim,” Kovalenko added.
What preceded
On June 20, it became known that during a visit to North Korea Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-in signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. This treaty provides for “immediate” mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the countries.
In addition, in June Putin tried to convince Kim Jong-in to open “diplomatic missions” in temporarily occupied Donetsk and Lugansk.
The Pentagon reacted to the possibility of sending North Korean soldiers to Ukraine to support the Russian occupiers. The US Department of Defense (US) noted that in this case North Korean military could become ‘cannon fodder’.
The military expert Pavel Narozhny in a comment for RBC-Ukraine expressed the opinion that sending troops to help the occupiers could have very negative consequences for North Korea.
