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Are North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine?. Russia’s army is forming a unit of some 3,000 North Koreans, a Ukrainian military intelligence source has told the BBC, in the latest report suggesting that Pyongyang is forming a close military alliance with the Kremlin. So far the BBC has yet to see any sign of such a large unit being formed in Russias Far East, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed reports of North Korean involvement. "This is not only British intelligence, it is also American intelligence. They report it all the time, they dont provide any evidence," he said. There is no doubt Moscow and Pyongyang have deepened their levels of cooperation in recent months. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent Vladimir Putin a birthday message only last week calling him his "closest comrade". Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken of North Korea joining the war, and South Korea’s defence minister said this month that the chance of a North Korean deployment in Ukraine was “highly likely”. The biggest question mark is over the numbers involved. A military source in Russia’s Far East confirmed to BBC Russian that “a number of North Koreans have arrived” and were stationed in one of the military bases near Ussuriysk, to the north of Vladivostok. But the source refused to give a precise number, other than that they were “absolutely nowhere near 3,000”. Military experts have told us they doubt Russian army units can successfully incorporate North Korean soldiers in their thousands. “It wasn’t even that easy to include hundreds of Russian prisoners at first – and all those guys spoke Russian,” one analyst - who is in Russia so didnt want to be named - told the BBC. Even if they did number 3,000, it would not be big in a battlefield sense, but the US is as concerned as Ukraine. “It would mark a significant increase in their relationship,” said US state department spokesman Matthew Miller, who saw it as “a new level of desperation by Russia” amid battlefield losses. It was back in June that Vladimir Putin toasted a “peaceful and defensive” pact with Kim Jong Un. And there is mounting evidence that North Korea is supplying Russia with ammunition, as recently demonstrated by the recovery of a missile in Ukraine’s Poltava region. In fact, reports of mines and shells supplied by Pyongyang date back to December 2023 in Telegram chats involving Russia’s military communities. Russian soldiers, stationed in Ukraine, have often complained about the standard of ammunition and that dozens of soldiers have been wounded. Kyiv suspects that a unit of North Korean soldiers is preparing in the Ulan-Ude region close to the Mongolian border ahead of deployment to Russia’s Kursk province, where Ukrainian forces launched an incursion back in August. “They could guard some sections of the Russian-Ukrainian border, which would free Russian units for fighting elsewhere,” said Valeriy Ryabykh, editor of the Ukrainian publication Defence Express. “I would rule out the possibility that these units will immediately appear on the front line.” Ryabakh is not alone in this thought.. North Korea may have some 1.28 million active soldiers but its army has no recent experience of combat operations, unlike Russia’s military. Pyongyang has pursued the old Soviet model in its armed forces but it is unclear how its main force of motorised infantry units might fit into the war in Ukraine. Then there is the obvious language barrier and an unfamiliarity with Russian systems that would complicate any fighting roles. That does not preclude North Korea’s military taking part in Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, but they are most recognised by experts for their engineering and construction abilities, not for fighting.
.烏克蘭媒體指出，北韓已向俄羅斯派遣多達1萬名士兵和軍事人員，其中3000人被分配到第11近衛空中突擊旅，該旅是俄軍2022年入侵初期，從白俄羅斯借道攻入烏克蘭的部隊，目前正在俄烏邊境整編， 烏東頓內次克（Donetsk）俄羅斯佔領區，在20241003日遭烏軍空襲後，傳出有6名來參觀作戰情況的北韓軍官被炸死，還有3名北韓人士受傷，或許正顯示北韓與俄國之間的派駐關係。. .
. Ukrainian media reported last week that six North Korean military officers were among about 20 military personnel killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on a training ground in Russian-occupied territory near the city of Donetsk on Oct. 3. Citing sources in Ukraine’s military intelligence, Interfax-Ukraine said three North Korean servicemen were also wounded. It cited Russian bloggers as saying that North Korean officers were visiting the front as part of an “exchange of experience” program in which they were being briefed by the Russian military. Radio Free Asia could not independently verify the reports. Russian and North Korean state-media have not mentioned any such incident
北韓士兵出現在烏克蘭東部前線的消息與其他情報一致這些北韓士兵正在布里亞特共和國接受俄軍第11空中突擊旅的訓練，並計劃偽裝成當地布里亞特人。布里亞特共和國位於西伯利亞東部，當地居民外貌與北韓士兵相似。北韓軍隊代號「布里亞特特種營」. 然而，烏克蘭國安會的科瓦連科指出，北韓軍隊中只有不到1％的軍官能夠流利使用俄語，這將給北韓士兵的戰場表現帶來語言障礙。雖然北韓士兵最初可能只被部署在庫爾斯克地區，但他預計最終將有更多北韓士兵和布里亞特士兵被派往烏東前線。 烏克蘭情報顯示出，北韓軍事工程師正在監督其武器的使用情況。武器專家表示，北韓曾有過派遣隨同軍事人員對運送的武器提供使用指導和監督的情況，但這些軍官的部署表明，平壤方面提供的不僅僅是炮彈和飛彈。 首爾峨山政策研究院(Asan Institute for Policy Studies)軍事專家Yang Uk表示，對於俄羅斯士兵來說，操作北韓飛彈和炮彈相對比較容易，因為它們是基於蘇聯設計製造的，但是，影片錄像中看到的反坦克飛彈運載車則需要有人指導才能操作。
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