North Korea may send workers to east Ukraine

(UPDATE) SEOUL: As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in eastern Ukraine.

The idea is openly endorsed by senior Russian officials and diplomats, who foresee a cheap and hard-working workforce that could be thrown into the "most arduous conditions," a term Russian Ambassador to Pyongyang Aleksandr Matsegora used in a recent interview.