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TIL North Korea participated in the October - Yom Kippur War in 1973 with a squadron of well trained pilots after Egypt enlisted them, and the contingent consisted of 30 pilots, 8 air controllers, 5 translators, some of them lost their lives, and those alive were honored by the Egyptian leadership.

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