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N. Korea may send workers to Russian-occupied east Ukraine
The Associated Press ^ | September 1, 2022 | KIM TONG-HYUNG

Posted on 09/04/2022 6:17:03 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country’s east.

The idea is openly endorsed by senior Russian officials and diplomats, who foresee a cheap and hard-working workforce that could be thrown into the “most arduous conditions,” a term Russia’s ambassador to North Korea used in a recent interview.

North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing pandemic border controls.

The talks came after North Korea in July became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.

The employment of North Korean workers in Donbas would clearly run afoul of U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear and missile programs and further complicate the U.S.-led international push for its nuclear disarmament.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: korea; nato; ukraine; war
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Or in other words, slave labor.
1 posted on 09/04/2022 6:17:03 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Translation: The starving north Korean workers will get fed in Ukraine


2 posted on 09/04/2022 6:19:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sure they’ll be leaving their families at home. Single men need not apply.


3 posted on 09/04/2022 6:20:54 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: bert
Translation: The starving north Korean workers will get fed in Ukraine

Most likely:

Translation: The starving north Korean workers will get fed or dead in Ukraine

Russians aren't dumb. After suffering around 80,000 dead in Ukraine, better to sacrifice the 'volunteered' from other countries than their own.
4 posted on 09/04/2022 6:26:39 AM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

Hope they return home fat.


5 posted on 09/04/2022 6:27:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Timber Rattler
Or in other words, slave labor.

Kinda like when our business CEOs offshore their manufacturing to 3rd world nations?

6 posted on 09/04/2022 6:30:01 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Hope they return home fat.

They probably won't return home. These workers will be all too eager to go to Ukraine, only to disappear into the European countryside.

7 posted on 09/04/2022 6:30:06 AM PDT by AnglePark
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To: Timber Rattler

The Allies are being bled white by the ongoing carnage.

Not surprising there is a labor shortage in the break-away republics.


8 posted on 09/04/2022 6:31:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: adorno

You must work for the Neocon filled Nazi supporting DoD or for the Ukrainian Ministry of Truth?

Russian casualties in Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng

As for the Ukrainians:
‘Ukrainian general estimates Kiev’s losses at hundreds of thousands since Feb’
https://tass.com/politics/1501881

An intercepted internal Ukrainian General Staff leak puts numbers in excess of 191K.


9 posted on 09/04/2022 6:33:02 AM PDT by cranked
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The Putin fans are loving this - war, gulags, slavery...


10 posted on 09/04/2022 6:35:21 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: bert

“ starving north Korean workers will get fed in Ukraine”

Indeed. They will get fed to the cannons.


11 posted on 09/04/2022 6:36:57 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: cranked
So says TASS and some random blog, eh?


12 posted on 09/04/2022 6:39:13 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

So says the Associated Press, etc. that you pull from, dink?
LMAOGTFO


13 posted on 09/04/2022 6:43:41 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

Russia has already denied North Korean help twice. North Korea is looking for attention, Russia ain’t playing that game.


14 posted on 09/04/2022 6:45:08 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (raise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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Russia has already denied North Korean help twice. North Korea is looking for attention, Russia ain’t playing that game.

Oh yeah?

Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations

Russia vows to expand relations with North Korea

15 posted on 09/04/2022 7:03:41 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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So the Norks are good guys, since they are assisting in fighting Soros - according to several totally psychotic people here.


16 posted on 09/04/2022 7:06:03 AM PDT by lasereye ( )
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To: Timber Rattler

Let’s hear it Putinistas, “they’re all Russians anyway”.


17 posted on 09/04/2022 7:06:41 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: cranked

Oh I see this story is a lie too. How convenient.


18 posted on 09/04/2022 7:07:54 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lasereye

Don’t forget the Syrian Jihadists they have killing Ukrainians. Just part of the great “Christian” plan.


19 posted on 09/04/2022 7:09:16 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

Let me know when them alleged North Koreans actually set foot in Ukraine, kkthx?


20 posted on 09/04/2022 7:11:02 AM PDT by cranked
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