Posted on 08/28/2022 10:23:49 AM PDT by dennisw
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The head of Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region has sent a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un calling for cooperation amid signs the North is considering sending laborers for restoration projects in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.
North Korea last month became one of the few nations in the world to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, another Russian-backed separatist region in eastern Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to cut off diplomatic ties with Pyongyang.
There are indications North Korea is reviewing plans to send workers for restoration projects in those regions, which could help its economy but run against U.N. Security Council sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program.
In his comments sent Monday, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin expressed hope that his Moscow-backed republic and North Korea could achieve “equally beneficial bilateral cooperation agreeing with the interests” of their people, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday.
Donetsk’s foreign ministry has said its ambassador to Russia, Olga Makeeva, met with North Korean ambassador to Russia Sin Hong Chol in Moscow on July 29 to discuss economic cooperation. According to the ministry, Sin then said there would be “great potential” for bilateral cooperation in trade and the “field of labor migration” following North Korea’s easing of pandemic border controls.
North Korea is reportedly having similar discussions with Luhansk.
In 2017, Russia backed sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council in response to a North Korean long-range missile test that required member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their territories within 24 months.
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U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price last month criticized Russian suggestions that North Korean workers could be employed for restoration projects in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, saying that such arrangements would be “an affront to the sovereignty of Ukraine.”
Price was referring to comments by Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora, who told the Tass news agency that North Korean construction workers would potentially provide “very serious help” in rebuilding the Donbas region.
Pushilin’s message to Kim was timed for the Aug. 15 anniversary of the Korean Peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule at the end of World War II. He congratulated Kim over the anniversary and insisted that the “people of the Donbas region, too, are fighting to regain their freedom and justice of history today just as the Korean people did 77 years ago,” KCNA said.
The report didn’t say whether Kim sent a message to Pushilin in response.
Luhansk and Donetsk together make up the Donbas region, a mostly Russian-speaking region of steel factories, mines and other industries in Ukraine’s east.
Separatists have controlled parts of both provinces since 2014, but Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized their independence only shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Syria is the only other nation that has recognized their independence.
North Korea has repeatedly blamed the United States for the crisis in Ukraine, saying the West’s “hegemonic policy” justified Russian military actions in Ukraine to protect itself.
Kim has also been exploiting a division in the U.N. Security Council that has deepened over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to accelerate his weapons development as he tries to cement the North as a nuclear power and negotiate a removal of crippling U.S.-led sanctions from a position of strength.
North Korea has test-fired more than 30 missiles in 2022 alone, including its first flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in nearly five years. There are also indications the North is restoring tunnels at a nuclear testing site that was last active in 2017 in possible preparations to resume nuclear explosive tests.
NK laborers = slaves
You beat me to it. My first thought as well.
And, although they might have an easier chance at escape geographically, the language barrier will be high.
Bad Vlad and Lil’ Kim. Vlad just splashing his mad money around (petro-rubles)
V+K a match made in heaven or hell.
There are indications North Korea is reviewing plans to send workers for restoration projects in those regions,... ..... This means they will need Nork troops there to keep the laborers from escaping.
“NK laborers = slaves”
American taxpayers = slaves.
Maybe China can send some Uighurs.
The Norks sound just like the FR cabal of Putineers
For all your globalist warmongering needs, turn to George Soros. (also sponsored by Pfizer)
*MAGA First/Anti-War/Anti-Globalist Ping*
If you want on or off this list, please let me know.
I think Zelensky should send an army of Klaus Schwabettes that resemble Yuval Harari. That would scare the crap out of both sides.
‘Russia Grinds Down Ukraine Forces in Donbass, Finds Counters to HIMARS; EU ‘Running Out of Oil, Gas’’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXA8fj4clPU
‘Russian Ops in Ukraine Update (August 27, 2022) - Latest US Military Aid Package “Biggest” Yet’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sm5Emu2tKM
‘Ukraine War Perspective: Journalist John Mark Dougan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAinEFF9f5M&t=132s
‘I took a LIBERAL, ANTI WAR Protester to see the truth in Donbass, and THIS Happened!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OysQ7yQl_o
Ned Price is a deep state weasel and a congenital liar...perfect fit for the US State Dept.
Not exactly surprising as this is heading for a global conflagration likely culminating in WW3, and the players are lining up to show support for their side. What North Korea does is barely relevant here, what is more concerning is what the other major non aligned nations do such as India, Brazil, Mexico, ect. None of these nations are honoring the sanctions put forward by the West, nor do they support NATO’s actions against Russia or the US provoking China over Taiwan.
Most of the global south just sees the US as a global bully intent on maintaining global hegemony over the world’s economic system and are against these actions. These nations would welcome a multipolar world with an alternative to the current dollar system which would help protect them from the inflation the US exports via their dependency on the dollar in internatinal trade. It remains to be seen whether the US has enough leverage with these countries to keep them on the dollar reservation. My guess is not for long.
Dpr and the norks... birds of a feather will flock together.
“U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price last month criticized Russian suggestions that North Korean workers could be employed for restoration projects in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine”
Well, Ned, honey, if you don’t want Norks in Donbass, how about RECOGNIZING the Republics, since they’re not going away.
This should create new opportunities for Norks to defect.
lovely
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