For the fourth time in recent history, Korean soldiers are fighting in another country’s war. Those destinations have all been at the behest of regional major powers: Japan, China, the United States,

The Group of Seven has branded Russia ’s deployment of thousands of North Korean troops into its fight with Ukraine as a “desperate effort” to replenish Moscow’s own losses as Kyiv reports the first combat clashes with Pyongyang’s soldiers.

Instead of leveraging Moscow’s faltering prospects by upping aid to Ukraine, Western leaders are paralyzed by fright.