North Korea Is Now Displaying Captured Western Tanks |
North Korea Is Now Displaying Captured Western Tanks
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A number of Western tanks and armored vehicles are on display in Pyongyang as part of a Ukraine War exhibit—but it is unlikely that North Korea actually captured them.
North Korea hasn’t fought a war with the West since the end of the Korean War in 1953. However, Pyongyang did send pilots and psychological warfare staff to support North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. North Korean advisors may have also participated in the Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973, and more recently the Angolan Civil War.
Today, however, North Korean military personnel are deployed in a combat role in the Ukraine War, supporting Moscow’s war effort. Even as Pyongyang would like to downplay the fact that as many as 6,000 soldiers have been killed in the ongoing fighting, and a number of others have defected to Ukraine, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opened a memorial for the fallen in Pyongyang this week. It cast the war as a noble struggle to support its Russian allies.
North Korea also unveiled its........