Mick Hartley

Selling the sending of North Korean troops to Ukraine, from the Daily NK:

North Korean authorities have been conducting political lectures for officials promoting the country’s deployment of troops to the Russia-Ukraine war since officially acknowledging the dispatch last month.

According to a Daily NK source in Kangwon province recently, the propaganda and agitation department of the Workers’ Party issued special political lecture materials about the Russia deployment to provincial party committees on May 21. Kangwon province’s party committee then held a regular Saturday lecture for officials based on these materials.

The materials said combat units of the Korean People’s Army took part in operations to liberate Russia’s Kursk region, helping to wipe out Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces and protect Russian territory.

“Our soldiers’ fighting spirit and tactical skills struck fear into the enemy,” the materials said, apparently trying to instill pride in officials about North Korea’s military strength.

The lecturer emphasized that North Korea leads an alliance of anti-imperialist forces.

“The lecturer kept using the phrase, ‘North Korea is a leading nation in the global anti-imperialist front,'” the source said. “This was clearly meant to drill into officials that our military has the combat power not only to protect our homeland but to lead the global strategic balance.”