What did North Korea get from the Ukrainian war?

South Korean analysts and officials said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian war provided the Korean military with what it had always wanted: testing new weapons and opportunities for North Korean officers to prepare for modern warfare.

In recent weeks, President Zelezki and other Ukrainian officials said that in addition to providing Russia with a large number of artillery shells and ballistic missiles, North Korea also sent military engineers and soldiers to fight side by side with the Russian army.Last week, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Long said that "very likely" several Korean soldiers have been killed in the battle, and North Korea will also send more troops to help Russia.

70 years ago, by providing weapons and pilots, Moscow helped North Korea fight the North Korean war.Now, North Korea's aid provided to Russia in a distant war is turning history.Analysts said that when the tension with South Korea is increasing, it has also strengthened its military preparation on the Korean Peninsula.

Since the Korean War, North Korea has not been involved in major conflicts.But it has been looking for opportunities to sell weapons to friendly countries and provide other military assistance.During the Vietnam War, it dispatched pilots to assist North Vietnam.Its pilots also flew Egypt in the 1973 Atonement Day.According to the Russian National News Agency, Tas, during the Syrian civil war in 2016, North Korea sent missile technicians and two small combat forces to fight the Assad regime.

"This has become a model: When North Korea sells weapons to countries in a state of war, they will not only send personnel to help these countries use these weapons, but also often send personnel to fight there," Seoul Eshan policy research researchYang Xu, a military expert in the hospital, said."They don't seem to like to miss the opportunity to participate in the war and gain experience."

If North Korea dispatched ground forces to Ukraine, it will be "their first major war in decades, their officers can take this opportunity to understand how modern warfare is carried out, including the use of drones", Yang Xu alsoexplain."They will study how to transform the knowledge obtained there to the Korean battlefield."

Washington has warned many times that the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea is increasingly closer and provides evidence of photo evidence to prove that North Korea's weapons have been used to deal with Ukraine, especially KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles.

KN-23 is one of the short-range ballistic missiles developed and tested in North Korea in recent years.Military experts said that if a war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, this would be one of the main weapons used by North Korea to deal with South Korea.

Liang Maojin, the president of North Korea, located in Seoul, said: "North Korea will collect valuable data from the use of the battlefield to improve the effectiveness of its missiles -these data can also be used to help sell missiles to foreign buyers."

South Korean analysts said that North Korea's contribution to the main personnel of the Russian war may be engineers and weapon consultants. They help the Russian military to operate weapons, observe defects, and collect data on the battlefield.It is said that many of North Korea's shells and missiles have poor quality and eventually proved to be dumb bombs.

Some analysts suspect that North Korea will not send a large number of troops to the Ukrainian battlefield in the short term.

"This action requires a large number of preparations for both parties, just like annual military exercises conducted by South Korea and the United States," Park Yuankun, a political scholar at Seoul Pear Blossom Women's University.

US and South Korean officials said that since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022, North Korea believes that it has transported containers with thousands of cannonballs, missiles and other weapons.They said that in return, North Korea may seek Russia's technical help for its nuclear and space projects, and have the opportunity to send North Korean workers to help rebuild Ukraine in Russia and bring urgently needed revenue back to China.

According to the UN Security Council's resolution, countries are banned from hiring North Korean workers or conducting weapons trade with North Korea.

Moscow and Pyongyang have denied weapons from North Korea.Russia also said that reports about the North Korean army fighting side by side with the Russian army are "another fake news."In recent weeks, Ukrainian officials and news media have reported more and more accusations, but did not provide photos or other evidence.

"We see that the alliance between Russia and North Korea is getting closer and closer," Zelei said on Sunday."This is no longer just a problem of transferring weapons. This is actually to transfer people from North Korea to the occupation forces."

As North Korea strengthens its partnership with Russia, its hostility to South Korea is also increasing. This week, North Korea has destroyed all railways and highways between the two countries with explosives.Sexual gesture.

"The feeling of forming an alliance with Russia may make North Korea boldly take more aggressive actions against South Korea," Park Yuankun said.