North Korea sends men for Putin's workforce

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- BY CHRIS HUGHES Defence & Security Editor

NORTH Korean despot Kim Jong-Un has gifted Vladimir Putin another 15,000 men to try to bolster Russia's war-hit labour workforce.

The workers are being sent to Russia's Far East to boost its industrial base because his war in Ukraine has vastly depleted the number of young men.

Not only has Russia suffered a downturn due to a reduced national birth rate but so many men have been either killed, injured or recruited for Putin's war.