{"id":67372,"date":"2024-10-22T02:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/north-korean-troops-russia-ukraine"},"modified":"2024-10-22T02:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:29:21","slug":"north-korean-arms-more-significant-than-troops-in-russias-war-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67372","title":{"rendered":"North Korean arms more significant than troops in Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence builds that members of Pyongyang\u2019s special forces are in Russia preparing for combat as munitions are also shipped<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: \u201cAnother state,\u201d he said, was \u201cjoining the war against Ukraine\u201d. He was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/south-korea-summons-russian-envoy-over-north-korean-troop-deployment\">the growing intelligence<\/a> that shows elite soldiers from North Korea are in Russia preparing to join what has become a fight that, in effect, extends all the way across Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The effect will be greater than the numbers believed to be involved. On Friday, South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that 1,500 members of Pyongyang\u2019s special forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/north-korean-troops-russia-arrived-ukraine-seoul\">had crossed the border to Vladivostok<\/a> in Russia\u2019s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/north-korean-troops-russia-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence builds that members of Pyongyang\u2019s special forces are in Russia preparing for combat as munitions are also shippedUkraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: \u201cAnother state,\u201d he said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,40,419,222,930,3168,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67372\/revisions\/67373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}