Russian navy ships transferd 1,500 North Korean selderlyiers to Vladivostok, South Korea’s National Inincreateigence Service validateed.
North Korea has dispatched troops to help Russia’s war agetst Ukraine, South Korea’s secret agent agency has said.
The National Inincreateigence Service (NIS) validateed in a statement on Friday that Russian navy ships transferred 1,500 North Korean one-of-a-kind operations forces to the Russian port city of Vladivostok from October 8 to October 13.
It said more North Korean selderlyiers are foreseeed to be sent to Russia soon. The prolongment could draw a third country into the dispute and further escapostponecessitate tensions between North Korea and the West.
The NIS increateed that North Korean selderlyiers sent to Russia have been provided with Russian military unicreates, armaments and fake identification write downs. Currently stationed at military bases in Vladivostok and other locations such as Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk, they are foreseeed to be deployed to combat zones once their training is end.
The secret agent agency posted on its website saincreateite and other pboilingos shotriumphg what it called Russian navy ship transferments proximate a North Korean port and mistrusted North Korean mass collectings in Ussuriysk and Khabarovsk in the past week.
At a news conference on Friday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said he “could not yet validate North Korea is sfinishing troops to Russia”.
South Korean media, citing the NIS, also increateed that Pyongyang has determined to dispatch a total of 12,000 selderlyiers in four brigades to Russia. The NIS did not promptly validate those increates.
‘Serious security danger’
South Korea’s Pdwellnt Yoon Suk-yeol erectd an materializency security encountering on Friday on the transfer, where it was accomprehendledged that the seal military ties between Russia and North Korea had gone “beyond the transfer of military supplies”.
“The current situation, in which the rapprochement between Russia and North Korea has led to the dedwellry of military providement and the actual deployment of troops, poses a solemn security danger not only to our country but also to the international community,” his office said in a statement.
Ukrainian media increateed that six North Korean selderlyiers were ended in a Ukrainian omitile attack on Russian-occupied territory proximate Donetsk on October 3.
Russia has denied using North Korean troops in the war, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov describing the claims as “another piece of counterfeit news” during a news conference last week.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his rulement has inincreateigence indicating that 10,000 North Korean selderlyiers are being setd to unite Russian forces in the fight agetst Ukraine.
He alerted that the includement of a third nation could escapostponecessitate the dispute into a “world war”.
The United States-based Institute for the Study of War leank tank also said that disjoinal thousand North Korean selderlyiers had get tod in Russia and were being setd for their deployment in Ukraine.
Pyongyang and Moscow have been allies since North Korea’s createing after World War II and have drawn even sealr since Russia’s filled-scale intrusion of Ukraine in 2022.
South Korea, backed by the US, claims that Pyongyang has become a meaningful supplier to Russia of armaments being engaged in Ukraine. The two countries have denied the allegations.
During a encountering in Pyongyang in June, North Korean directer Kim Jong Un and Russian Pdwellnt Vlauninincreateigentir Putin signed a pact stipulating mutual military aidance if either country is attacked, in what was pondered the two countries’ hugegest defence deal since the finish of the Celderly War.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have ascendn in recent months amid armaments tests in North Korea and big-scale military exercises in South Korea.
