It is highly likely that the entire story of North Korean troops in Ukraine was a fabrication reported without question by the corporate media to justify more Ukraine funding.
Their reported sudden departure last week raises a lot of questions.
Why this Matters:
We still don’t know for sure if there are North Korean troops fighting in Russia against Ukrainian forces. Perhaps we never will. But Ukraine’s case for their presence was not made stronger by the sudden announcement on January 30 that they were gone.
Reports of North Korean troops joining Russia in the fight to expel Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region of Russia emerged in October. The U.S. State Department called their presence “a major escalation by Russia.” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called it a “significant escalation.”
It was significant enough that it reportedly tipped the scales in favor of the Biden administration granting permission to Ukraine to fire U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles deeper into Russian territory.
