Russia wants to bring workers from the DPRK to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to help the occupation administration.
This was reported by the Center of National Resistance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin persuaded North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to create his “diplomatic” missions in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the main task of which is actually to facilitate the importation of North Korean citizens to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to perform construction work.
The Center of National Resistance analyzes such actions of the Russian Federation, which confirm the lack of a sufficient number of workers from the territory of Russia itself or labor migrants from Central Asia.
This year, Russia has already recruited labor migrants to participate in the occupation activities of the Russian Federation, so it is likely that labor units from North Korean citizens may be brought in to support the occupation forces.
In July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation established its regional “representative offices” in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the main task of which was to attract foreigners to labor migration and create foreign enterprises in these regions. Employees of the “representative offices” will carry out work on the creation of new “diplomatic offices”, “consular offices” and “representative offices of foreign organizations” in order to create the illusion of “international recognition” of the belonging of these territories to the Russian Federation.
Previously, since 2014, the Russian Federation also used citizens of the so-called Commonwealth of Unrecognized States, which includes Abkhazia, the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Transnistrian Moldavian Gagauzia, the Republic of South Ossetia, who regularly visited the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
What is known about cooperation between the Russian Federation and the DPRK
Earlier, White House spokesman John Kirby stated that negotiations between the Russian Federation and North Korea on military cooperation are “actively advancing.”
In July, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Serhii Shoigu, visited the DPRK and met, in particular, with his North Korean counterpart.
In early August, the White House accused the Russian Federation of trying to buy ammunition from the DPRK.
On August 18, it became known that US President Joe Biden is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “without preconditions” to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
On August 31, the United States imposed sanctions against two citizens of the Russian Federation due to the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles for the DPRK.
On September 4, The New York Times, citing officials of the US and allied countries, reported that the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, plans to visit the Russian Federation in September and meet with Vladimir Putin to discuss military cooperation.
On the evening of Friday, September 8, at the parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the state, the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, met with the Chinese delegation before his trip to Russia.
Later it became known that the leader of North Korea went to Vladivostok by train to meet with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin confirmed Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Russian Federation “in the coming days.”
On the morning of September 12, the armored train of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in the Russian Federation. The North Korean dictator was expected to meet Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok, Russia. Kim Jong-un and Putin held their meeting at the Skhidny cosmodrome. At the same time, the United States expressed concern about the negotiations between the Russian Federation and North Korea and promised consequences in case of deepening of defense cooperation. Also, Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that any country that supports Russia in the war against Ukraine is complicit in the murders of Ukrainian civilians, officials and those on the battlefield.