Pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) said that they are already negotiating with North Korea about hiring workers to help rebuild the occupied territories, TASS reports.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR is conducting negotiations regarding the involvement of builders, including from North Korea, in the reconstruction of the territories of the DPR. Previously, before Western sanctions, North Korea sent its builders to other countries, they developed a certain model,” said the leader of the Donetsk separatists, Denys Pushylin, in an intervention on Volodymyr Solovyov’s show.
“Designers from the People’s Republic of Korea are very qualified, disciplined and really show very good results,” Pusilin added, stating that the first group of North Korean “specialists” should arrive in Donetsk in the near future to “establish the scope of activities.”
His comments came after Russia’s ambassador to Pyongyang, Oleksandr Matsegora, said in July that Moscow wanted to rebuild occupied Ukrainian territories with the help of workers from North Korea.
“Highly qualified and hardworking Korean workers are ready to work in the most difficult conditions, they will be an important asset in the serious task of restoring social order, infrastructure and industrial facilities. [din Donbas]destroyed by the Ukrainian Nazis,” Matsegora said on July 19.
Donetsk separatists are making plans with North Korea
Later, the pro-Russian separatists announced that they had invited North Korea to participate in the “international tribunal” that would try prisoners of war captured in Ukraine.
Despite the fact that the independence of two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (LPR), was recognized by Syria, and later by North Korea, none of the states has yet expressed a desire to participate in such a trial. .
At the end of May, Denys Pusilin announced that the DPR would create an “international tribunal” to try prisoners of war captured in Ukraine.
Currently, the independence of the DPR and RPL has been recognized by both the above-mentioned countries and Russia. However, pro-Russian separatists and Moscow say the number will actually be five, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two separatist entities in Georgia.
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