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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Archie Bland

Tuesday briefing: What Ukraine might gain from two North Korean captives

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, centre left, meets soldiers in North Korea last March.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, centre left, meets soldiers in North Korea last March. Photograph: ���N�ʐM��/AP

Good morning. In a grinding war where significant changes at the front are hard to discern, a video released by Ukraine on Sunday is a rare point of focus: it featured two North Korean soldiers, answering questions from their Ukrainian captors, and weighing the circumstances of their presence in a conflict thousands of miles from home.

The video is, perhaps, not militarily significant. But it is a unique insight into one of the more extraordinary aspects of a conflict that has drawn in actors from all over the world, and is a crucible in which every participant is learning how modern wars are fought.

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