(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . North Korea to send troops, police to Ukraine, but pulls back on plan to send laborers [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-02 A South Korean news report says that North Korea is planning to send as many as 500 troops and police to the Donbas region of Ukraine to help as workers. x North Korea 🇰🇵 will send policemen to the occupied Donbass 🇺🇦 as workers, and also military, a South Korean 🇰🇷 news report says. Their exact number is unknown, but there are likely 300-500 🇰🇵 security forces who will arrive in Donbas in February or March. pic.twitter.com/rzNpD4Bb9l — Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) February 2, 2023 But this plan is different than what North Korea had previously committed to doing for Russia — sending laborers. Apparently the dumpster fire that is the Russian occupation is just too much for even North Korea. Police and military will be sent instead. What they’ll be doing isn’t exactly clear. Less than a week after North Korea promised to “always stand in the same trench” with Russia, it seems even Pyongyang is losing faith in Vladimir Putin’s war machine. After promising last November to help Russia rebuild bombed out parts of occupied eastern Ukraine, North Korean authorities picked out laborers to send and then even recruited some more—but they have now thought better of sending them, according to Daily NK. ……… Instead, Pyongyang has reportedly decided to appease Russia by sending military and security personnel to eastern Ukraine. A source cited by Daily NK on Thursday said the North Korean government on Jan. 20 ordered several of its trading companies located in Russia to pick out personnel to be sent to the occupied territories. Between 300 and 500 Korean men aged 19 to 27 are expected to be tossed into eastern Ukraine, though the tasks they will be assigned are not entirely clear. ------------------------------------------------— Russia’s killer robot (i.e. unmanned ground vehicle) called Marker has allegedly arrived in Ukraine. Let’s see how long it lasts. x Russia’s Dmitry Rogozin via his Telegram channel: “Marker UGVs have arrived in Donbas. We will start uploading target images and combat algorithms, and will install anti-tank weapons.” https://t.co/cWCLxeEp72 https://t.co/BBmMN8fJxG pic.twitter.com/HFzfk7iEz6 — Samuel Bendett (@SamBendett) February 2, 2023 --------------------------------------------------------- Ukraine is easily now the most heavily mined country in the world. x 6,200 out of the 880,000 hectares of mined territory in the Kherson/Mykolaiv has been checked by sappers. They found 57,000 explosive devices. It is going to take a long time to demine Ukraine. This isn't even the most heavily mined area of the country.https://t.co/s6UjUzt9v3 pic.twitter.com/iI0TKhVS7S — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) February 2, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------ Now there’s only 11. x Ukrainian artillery destroyed a rare SAM system Tor-M2DT - only 12 units were produced for Russia's Arctic brigades 📹https://t.co/w1uZsF0CGA pic.twitter.com/nHcpjdzY4R — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 2, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------— Help from Israel should have come a long time ago, but better late than never. And assuming it was Israel that attacked Iran, those strikes on weapon production facilities will help Ukraine too. The photo Twitter says is potentially sensitive is just a photo of Netanyahu. x 🇮🇱#Israel'i Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he is "definitely considering providing military aid to 🇺🇦#Ukraine" Regarding the possibility of supplying the anti-missile defense system, he said: "I am definitely thinking about it as well pic.twitter.com/6PHhjZQvcZ — C4H10FO2P (@markito0171) February 1, 2023 ---------------------------------------------------------- And even Switzerland is now trying to find a way to help the effort to send tanks to Ukraine. x Currently, the Swiss armed forces have about 300 Leopard 2A4 tanks in service. Most of them are manufactured in Switzerland, 35 bought from Germany. Nearly 100 of these have been mothballed for 10 years, ready for decomissioning. But they remain operable. https://t.co/RRSrbDI2DL — NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 2, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------- Gratuitous cat video. x Combat cats training session. Their instructor seems to have great confidence in them. pic.twitter.com/dsD52sVsfl — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 1, 2023 ------------------------------------------------— And a gratuitous video of cooking borscht. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/2/2150625/-North-Korea-to-send-troops-police-to-Ukraine-but-pulls-back-on-plan-to-send-laborers Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/