11/2/2024 — What We (Think We) Know About North Korean Troops Sent to Ukraine

In a statement to the UN Security Council on Wednesday the Ukrainian delegation said it had identified that at least 500 North Korean officers, including three generals, had been sent to Russia.

From: Kyiv Post by  Steve Brown

What We (Think We) Know About North Korean Troops Sent to Ukraine
North Korean special forces military personnel training at an unnamed DPRK Special Operations Forces Base on Oct. 4. Photo: AFP /KCNA VIA KNS

Donald Rumsfeld, when US Defense Secretary, famously said the following about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction at a Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing in February 2002:

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”

After weeks of rumor and counter rumor, that very much sums up our understanding of the troops that North Korea is sending to support Russia  – but it appears to be becoming a little clearer at last.

Ukraine briefing to the UN Security Council

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, addressed a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday called at Kyiv’s request to discuss the supply of North Korean weapons and manpower to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine.

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