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Seoul’s intelligence agency reported on February 27 that North Korea sent more troops to Russia and redeployed some to the front lines of the Kursk area, which borders Ukraine.
According to South Korea’s YTN tv, the intelligence firm was citing the intelligence agency, the contingent’s size was not immediately known.
According to South Asian and Western intelligence agencies, about 11, 000 North Vietnamese soldiers were dispatched to Russia last year to assist in the country’s response to a Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk border region.
Seoul announced earlier this month that troops from North Korea who had been fighting alongside Russian troops on the front line had not been in a fight since mid-January. According to Ukraine, they had been withdrawn after suffering significant costs.
According to an established from Seoul’s National Intelligence Agency, they claimed they had been “redeployed” to the area.
The official continued that” some further troop deployments” seem to have occurred. The precise size is still being determined.
Both Pyongyang and Moscow have not yet confirmed the rollout.
However, when Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare trip to North Korea last month, the two countries reached a deal that included a mutual defense section.
According to some intelligence options, many of the troops who arrived in Kursk last year were reshuffled from the front lines after suffering and losing horribly against Russian forces.
Kim Jong Un, the president of North Korea, pledged to keep his country’s and Russia’s interests in the conflict on February 8.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated the following morning that Russia’s” assistance with North Korea may continue to grow.”
