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Dispute grows over Ukraine's captured North Korean soldiers
Original: The row over Ukraine’s North Korean prisoners
Ukraine's decision to publicise and seek talks over North Korean soldiers captured while fighting alongside Russian forces has sparked a political and diplomatic row. Kyiv has suggested exchanges and used the prisoners to highlight Pyongyang's direct role in the war, while Moscow and Pyongyang have stayed largely silent on the men's fate, and questions persist over their treatment, repatriation and what their capture reveals about North Korea's deeper involvement in the conflict.
Why now: Fresh attention to North Korea's troops fighting for Russia and the diplomatic complications of holding prisoners neither Moscow nor Pyongyang acknowledges.
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