A battalion of 3,000 North Korean soldiers will shortly join Russian troops in fighting Ukraine, marking Pyongyang’s full entry into the war.

Intelligence sources said the unit has been secretly training in Russia’s Far East ahead of deployment as part of a Russian airborne regiment.

“They are called the Buryat Battalion,” a senior Ukrainian military source told Politico. Buryatia is a remote region of Russia bordering Mongolia that the Kremlin has targeted heavily for military recruitment.

The Kyiv Independent quoted another Western intelligence source claiming that North Korea had sent 10,000 soldiers to join the Russian army.

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  • @[email protected]
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    373 hours ago

    Any North Korean soldiers captured should be held prisoner in some Scandinavian prison and fed nothing but the most decadent and tasty foods. Then when the war is over send them back to NK fatter than Kim Jon Un. That would be a real power play.

    • @[email protected]
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      223 hours ago

      You can’t serve Scandinavian food to prisonners it is forbidden by the Geneva convention.

      • @[email protected]
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        162 hours ago

        If meatballs and mashed potatoes with lingonberry sauce are against the Geneva convention it’s probably time we had on Oslo convention.

        • @Aceticon
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          32 hours ago

          Smorgasbord all day every day would be Tortute!

      • @Klear
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        62 hours ago

        Because it causes Stockholm syndrome?

        • @thawed_caveman
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          152 minutes ago

          I was kind of on board with that idea, but now i’m100% on board