Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat: Is North Korea Fighting for Assad in Syria?
Two North Korean militias are fighting for Bashar al-Assad the Syrian opposition claims.
Two North Korean militia units are fighting alongside Syrian government forces a representative of a Syrian opposition delegation claimed in Geneva this week, according to TASS.
Asaad al-Zoubi, a leading figure in the so-called High Negotiations Committee delegation, the Saudi-backed main opposition bloc, revealed the information amidst ongoing U.N.-sponsored peace talks on Syria in Geneva on Tuesday.
“Two North Korean units are there, which are Chalma-1 and Chalma-7,” al Zoubi said. According to the opposition, a former colonel in the Syrian Arab Army who now heads the Free Syrian Army in the south of the country, the North Korean fighters are “fatally dangerous.”
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WNU Editor: I am sceptical of these reports. No pictures. No videos. No eyewitness reports. If there are North Koreans fighting in Syria .... their numbers must be negligible.
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