Moscow says Pyongyang will send another 6,000 military engineers and workers to help Russia in the war against Ukraine. Both sides benefit from their covenant, analysts claim. How?
The delegation of the high-ranking Northern Korean military personnel traveled to Monday, and analysts suggest that Pjongjang was preparing to send additional troops in the next week, as to help Russia in the war against Ukraine.
After visiting North Korea last month, the President of the Russian Security Council and former Media Minister, told the North Korean leader of Kim Jong and workers to the Kurchoric area, emphasizing all the better military connections between Moscow and Pyongjang.
The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed these allegations. The intelligence agency also claims that North Korea delivered Russia more than ten million artillery grenades and missiles, and in turn received assistance in the form of economic cooperation, ie military technology.
Mutually beneficial agreement
Analysts believe that, given the benefits of both parties they have from their covenant, the North Korea will really send more soldiers to fight their Russian colleagues and want to help in the long run.
“And Moscow and Pyongyang get what they want from that agreement,” James James, a professor of international relations at the Tokyo University of Kokushikan.
“We know that Russia suffered losses – these are hundreds of thousands of killed and wounded people – and that the government does not want to expand mobilization, as Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russian President Vladimir) Putin in these cities,” says Zinberg for DW.
North Korean authorities, in the meantime, seek to take advantage of the arrangement of soldiers as an opportunity to “wake up” a nation.
For example, in the scenes that were evident to encourage national venture before sending soldiers, state media broadcasts and staff where the North Korean flag is visited on the ceremony of returning remains of soldiers killed in battles.
Although only six suitcases could be seen on the videos, Western intelligence reports suggest that from approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers, as far as it has been engaged in the war against Ukraine, about 6,000 killed, wounded or trapped.
On the shots, Kim also cry during the joint cultural event with Russia in Pyongjang on Saturday, organized on the occasion of the anniversary of the Bilateral Military Pact with Russian Leader Vladimir Putin.
North Korean troops “help Putin’s mode”
While Pyongyang (IS) used the arrangement of soldiers as a propaganda, the presence of North Korean units is well for Russian authorities and citizens. “Most of those who have been recruited so far from remote republics and there were few resistance. But when I talk to the Russians, they always say they are column,” says Zinberg, which otherwise originates from St. Petersburg.
“When the government announces that the first line of the front will be sent to another 6,000 North Korean soldiers, then they say they can relax, because they know they are safe,” Zinberg added. “So sending the North Koreahus actually helps Putin’s mode.”
Zinberg also says that the use of North Korean soldiers is a budgeted move with the aim of “Ukraine’s expansion, which previously hoped for the Russian ally with nuclear weapons in East Asia” wake up “, ie on constant caution and the United States and South Korea and Japan.
Ra Džong Jil, former diplomat and the High South Korean intelligence officer, agree that North Korea agreed to send even more of his soldiers, can be considered losses that Russia has already suffered on the front lines of the front.
“Some of these soldiers seem to be used as well as infrastructure renewal workers, which is something in which North Korean troops are good, because they are so often used in the north (Korean Peninsula, Prim.Red)”, explains the RA.
He predicts that North Korea “will continue to send more staff even after the end of the fight, because Russia still lack many workers for the renovation of areas affected by warkirs”.
Can the help of Russia to ensure the survival of the regime in Pyongjang?
Intelligence estimates show that Russia is “reoveled” by North Korea fuel, food and access to advanced military equipment that Pyongyang could have previously afforded for himself, because the regime under the strict embargo and the United Nations Sanctions.
Another benefit for Pyongyang is a prestige that brings the fact that this country is a key ally of one global force. It is an alliance that North Korea can be very easily used in trade and security arrangements with China, which has long been closest to her by the partner and protector of the regime.
“They like the status that brings them friendship with Russia,” says Zinberg. “I expect that close Moscow will still remain, even after the end of the war, offering the Russians of the unit and the workforce, because they know that this can benefit them to support regime and ensure its survival.”
(Vijesti.ba)
