Some of the North Korean soldiers deployed to fight for Russia have already been killed, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 1 without revealing their numbers.

"Their accuracy, in principle, is not very high. We understand that the technologies by which they were manufactured are outdated," Andrii Cherniak, a military intelligence spokesperson, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

North Korea, Russia, and China often inhabit the same position in the headspaces of NATO nations as the United Bloc against the Treaty's forces. However, are these powers as closely aligned as is supposed?