Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has for the first time acknowledged that North Korean soldiers took part in the fighting to recover Russian territory after Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region last year.

North Korea acknowledged for the first time Monday that it had provided troop reinforcements to aid Russia in its war on Ukraine.

The supreme leader of the basket case country helped his despot pal in the Kremlin by dispatching 12,000 combat troops to the frontline in Ukraine sparking panic as to what he was promised in return.