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Two border and security claims before 15 October 2024
Summary
A look back at what had been reported by 15 October 2024 on North Korean troops and Poland's asylum request.
What was the picture across Ukraine and its neighbours on 15 October 2024? Two reports from the preceding days set the tone, one about the war and one about migration policy.
On 13 October 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that North Korean troops had been deployed to Ukraine to fight alongside the Russian military. The claim placed foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the centre of the debate.
On 12 October 2024, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk asked the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum, aimed at controlling irregular immigration from Belarus. The request followed Germany's tightening of border controls and a call by its Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, for EU-wide solutions. Human rights activists condemned the proposal as unconstitutional.
The two reports concern different problems, but both involved states acting at the edges of the EU and Ukraine, and both drew sharp attention in the days before 15 October 2024.
