NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte said that the move represents 'a significant escalation' in North Korea's involvement in the conflict and marks 'a dangerous expansion of Russia's war'.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has confirmed North Korean troops have been deployed in Russia's Kursk border region. NATO has confirmed that North Korean troops have been sent to help Russia in its almost three-year war against Ukraine and said some have already been deployed in Russia's Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion.
Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe's biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine's weary and overstretched army. It will also stoke geopolitical tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the wider Indo-Pacific region, including Japan and Australia, Western officials say.
Ukraine, whose defences are under severe Russian pressure in its eastern Donetsk region, could get more bleak news from next week's US presidential election.In Moscow, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday that Russian troops have captured the Donetsk village of Tsukuryne — the latest settlement to succumb to the slow-moving Russian onslaught.
"We continue to monitor the situation closely," he said. He did not take questions after the statement. Yoon was speaking on a phone call made at the request of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to share information on North Korean troops in Russia, Yonhap said citing Yoon's office.
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