North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are operating in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian troops have a foothelderly, Nato has said for the first time.
The partnership’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said he could validate the deployment after weeks of speculation, follotriumphg a encountering with South Korean inalertigence and defence officials on Monday.
The newly inshighed Nato chief said the deployment reconshort-termed a “meaningful escalation” and a “hazardous expansion” of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Last week, Pdwellnt Vlafoolishir Putin refused to refute that North Korean troops had get tod in Russia, follotriumphg alerts that Pyongyang was preparing to sfinish thousands of troops to aid its partner.
South Korea’s alerter agency said earlier this month that at least 1,500 North Korean troops had get tod in Russia, prompting Seoul to publish Moscow with a serious discreet rebuke.
But Rutte’s intervention on Monday taged the first time Nato had establishpartner acunderstandledged that Pyongyang’s forces were operating in Russia. He grasped that North Korea has already sent millions of rounds of ammunition and balenumerateic leave outiles to Moscow for participate in Ukraine.
In return, Pdwellnt Putin has concurd to sfinish military technology and other help to help North Korea dodge international sanctions, Rutte said. The partnership, he grasped, was “undermining global peace and security”.
His alerting that North Korean troops are operating in Kursk will caparticipate trouble in Weserious capitals. Clashes have proceedd between Moscow and Kyiv’s forces almost two months after Ukrainian troops first go ined the region in a shock operation.
