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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[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 1 month ago

That's the dream and goal!

However, we do see articles about the clever Russian who got sent to the front and then managed to get back home to Russia.

E.g. https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/10/11/escape-from-the-meat-grinder-the-making-of-a-russian-deserter and https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/20/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-deserter.html

North Korea doesn't really care about their soldiers. They're willing to risk all of them on the chance that even a small handful come back alive (i.e. not flee) with hardened battlefield experience to use against South Korean and the United States in the future.