{"id":67449,"date":"2024-10-25T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/25\/north-korea-russia-ukraine-war-troops-south-korea"},"modified":"2024-10-25T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:18:12","slug":"blood-alliance-why-south-korea-fears-norths-involvement-in-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67449","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood alliance\u2019: why South Korea fears North\u2019s involvement in Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News that troops from North Korea could be joining Russians on the battlefield in Ukraine has caused deep concern in Seoul<\/p>\n<p>The video is grainy but the message is clear. The clip, posted by NK News, purports to show North Korean soldiers in green fatigues receiving basic supplies at a training base in Russia\u2019s east, ahead of joining Vladimir Putin\u2019s war against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News that Pyongyang has sent 3,000 troops to train to fight in the war has horrified Ukraine, the US and Europe. But it has special significance in Seoul \u2013 7,300km from Kyiv \u2013 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> is a both an enemy and a nextdoor neighbour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/25\/north-korea-russia-ukraine-war-troops-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that troops from North Korea could be joining Russians on the battlefield in Ukraine has caused deep concern in SeoulThe video is grainy but the message is clear. The clip, posted by NK News, purports to show North Korean soldiers in green fatigue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,221,40,419,222,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","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\/67449","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67469,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449\/revisions\/67469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}