North Korea: North Korea has issued a call for volunteers who are willing to participate in the Ukraine war, the report said. | Mar 30, 2023 | North Korea is preparing to send 500,000 soldiers to support Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, The Eurasian Times reported quoting a Russian state TV war correspondent. The journalist- Aleksander Sladkov- who according to the report specializes in military affairs, claimed that North Korea is strongly supporting Russia amid Ukraine war. ● North Korea is willing to dispatch its troops to take part in the war, he claimed, citing sources in Pyongyang, saying further that at least 500,000 North Korean troops are being prepared to assist the Russian military. North Korea has issued a call for volunteers who are willing to participate in the war and around 800,000 individuals have expressed their eagerness, he claimed.“I spoke with a friend of mine, the head of a Korean war veterans’ organization. He was here recently. I said, ‘What do you guys have?’ He said,’ 50,000 special forces are ready for deployment’,” the journalist is quoted saying by the report. Earlier, the US had claimed that Russia was procuring weapons from North Korea and employing them in the Ukraine invasion. Both Russia and North Korea have denied the claims.

■ North Korea ready to send 100,000 troops to Ukraine to help Russia: Russian state media (TimesNow)
■ Why Is North Korea Supporting Russia on Ukraine? (The Diplomat)

Earlier this week, Russian lawmakers finished a probe into the US-sponsored military-related biological activities in laboratories across Ukraine, putting their findings into a 200-page report – a document, which astonished some observers in Moscow and overseas. | The report of the Russian parliamentary commission, which is based in part on findings previously published by Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, lays out in detail how Washington and Kiev created a network of laboratories across Ukraine, where military-oriented or double-purpose biological research was performed under the guise of medical biological or biosecurity projects. The parliamentary commission has also concluded that the US aims to develop “a universal genetically engineered bioweapon”, capable of infecting not only people, but animals as well as agricultural crops. ● Russia has been warning the international community about the dangers of the US-sponsored biolabs for years, said microbiologist and former UN bioweapons inspector Igor Nikulin. He told Sputnik that the investigators took into account some of his findings from his 2019 works for the anti-terrorism committee of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and added that there are many technical details in the new report that were never made public before.

■ US Working on 'Universal' Genetically Engineered Bioweapon: Russian Parliamentary Investigation (TPV)
■ US resumes biolabs program in Ukraine – Russian MOD (04/08/23)