Surprised Everyone: Why Kim Jong-un Offered Putin His Troops

Everyone was surprised: why exactly Kim Jong-un offered Putin his troops Anzhelika Galesevich

Western media assume that it was Kim Jong-un who suggested Vladimir Putin to send his troops to Russia. Such cooperation is beneficial to both: the Kremlin gets cheap soldiers, and the DPRK gets currency for them, which it is in short supply of.

Political consultant Boris Tiesenhausen expressed this opinion to Channel 24, noting that the North Korean leader is ready to give Putin large numbers of his troops. Even despite the fact that the DPRK is suffering serious losses in the battles in Kursk.

Cooperation between Russia and the DPRK is beneficial to both sides

The New York Times writes that earlier in the United States they assumed that it was the Kremlin that first approached North Korea with a request to provide troops to help in the war with Ukraine. However, now American intelligence agencies believe that this was North Korea's idea from the very beginning, not Russia's, although Vladimir Putin quickly accepted it. This is beneficial to the dictator for two reasons:

• cheap force. For one North Korean soldier the occupiers pay 2 thousand dollars, while for a Russian they pay several million;
• preservation of their own “biomass”. There is no need to use Russian society for war when there is someone else's.

It was important for Kim Jong-un to send his troops because of a problem that has been going on since the time of his father's rule – lack of currency. The country's leader came up with various schemes, but it was not enough.

And suddenly Russia starts a full-scale war against Ukraine. North Korea begins to supply weapons and manpower. She received about 5 billion dollars for the shells alone and more than 600 million dollars for the personnel.

They are not very well trained. Even the North Korean special forces are generally not fighting <..> Their army numbers more than a million people, but they spend almost all their time picking vegetables and helping the collective farmers, said Boris Tiesenhausen.

And they even pay money for them. Therefore, of course, Kim Jong-un is ready to give them to Russia in large quantities.