In the last several months, there have been occasional reports about North Korean troops allegedly fighting in Ukraine. Back in June, I argued that Pyongyang could’ve sent specialized personnel to help integrate some of the North Korean weapons (specifically rockets and missiles) into the Russian military, provided there’s more conclusive evidence that Moscow acquired them. However, more recently, claims about thousands of North Korean combat troops in Ukraine have resurfaced, with reports that South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has information on around 12,000 of them allegedly fighting for the Russian military. This comes after the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky made similar claims, insisting that the “democratic Ukraine is at war with three dictatorships: Russia, Iran and North Korea”.

Pushing such narratives is very useful for spreading propaganda about the Neo-Nazi junta (obviously, the “beacon of democracy”) supposedly “defending Europe” and the “civilized NATO garden” from all those “evil hordes of autocracy”. Many outlets of the mainstream propaganda machine are already at work, publishing all sorts of unsubstantiated reports, claiming that North Korean troops are supposedly “already deserting” and then being “forced into penal units”. South Korean sources are even presenting rather unclear satellite imagery as “proof” of the large-scale deployment of North Korean soldiers. The Kiev regime now claims that these forces are being sent to “help drive Ukrainian forces out of Kursk [oblast/region]”. This is also being used to push other propaganda narratives about Moscow’s alleged........

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