Cannon fodder or combat drill? North Korean troops in Ukraine

The apparent dispatch of elite North Korean military units to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine appears at first surprising but actually is quite logical given the historic and comradely ties between Pyongyang and Moscow. After all, North Korea’ s isolated Kim Jong-Un regime has forged increasingly close ties with Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the cash-strapped North Koreans have shipped more than eight million 122mm and 152mm artillery shells to Russia in the past year.
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