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Engineers said to be supporting missile launches and reports of North Koreans killed near Donetsk

North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, and North Koreans operating in occupied areas of Ukraine have already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.

There are dozens of North Koreans behind Russian lines, in teams that "support launcher systems for KN-23 missiles", a source in Ukraine told the Guardian.

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, last year travelled to Russia for a summit with Vladimir Putin where the two men bolstered their deepening ties with a secret arms deal.

Pyongyang's ammunition shipments were vital in allowing Russian forces to advance in a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine this summer. But it appears increasingly clear that the agreement went beyond supplying materiel.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Poverty can explain most things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yes, but in both cases, it's manufactured poverty. It's really not hard to make basic cesspit and keep it away from water sources. This is a solved problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, it's a solved problem, but is it a profitable problem?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Considering the economies of areas with clean, modern hygiene vs a lack of hygiene, I'd say yes, yes it is.

This is more suborn, cultural issues. Russia has poor areas because the wealthy don't feel rich without poor people to look down on and poor people in those areas view themselves as more rugged and strong without modern conveniences(although once a rural Russian tries some modern living while in school, they don't go home). Similar circumstances with rural Americans.