There are growing reports that North Korea is sending as many as 3,000 troops to assist Russia in its war on Ukraine. If true, it would not only be the latest example of Pyongyang helping Moscow, but also further proof of a growing closeness between those two capitals, Beijing, and Tehran. It’s been variously called the new “axis of evil,” or the “quartet of chaos,” but whatever the moniker, the four countries are stymieing a range of United States and Western interests around the world.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Also, this may likely be a strategic move to prevent South Korea from weapons deliveries by putting them in an awkward situation?

This sounds like good news for South Korea to me. North Korea has not communicated it is sending troops, so South Korea has no official way of knowing that arms sent by South Korea to Ukraine will kill North Koreans. So the only thing South Korea needs to do to significantly reduce the threat of North Korea on at the South Korean border is send arms to Ukraine. Geopolitically this would be quite a win for South Korea.