North Korea confirmed that it sent troops to fight in Ukraine, but with tens of thousands of Russians killed in the fighting, the Wall Street Journal reports that Moscow is now turning to Pyongyang to reinforce another sector: Russia’s workforce. North Korea analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee told The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that ties are likely to only deepen between the two countries moving forward. Lee is a senior fellow at the Stimson Center and joined from Washington.
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