“Russia may also count on North Korean combat engineers in a potential Dnieper River-crossing operation to seize Kherson,” Doo Jin-ho, a senior researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Security, told This Week in Asia.
At a press conference on Saturday, Lavrov made no secret that Moscow would welcome further North Korean military involvement in the war, saying that if Pyongyang offered to send more troops, Russia would have “no reasons to decline this sincere act of solidarity”.
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Lavrov in Pyongyang: Russia’s urgent bid for more North Korean troops?
Lavrov in Pyongyang: Russia’s urgent bid for more North Korean troops?
He added that Pyongyang would “determine the forms in which” the two sides implemented the strategic defence treaty they signed last year, according to a Russian foreign ministry statement.
