NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday that North Korea fighting Vladimir Putin’s was in Ukraine will mark a “significant escalation.”
Rutte met for talks with the South Korean President on Monday to discuss the growing situation.
NATO Secretary General said, “North Korea sending troops to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine would mark a significant escalation.”
The Yonhap news agency reported the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said, “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the reckless military alignment between Russia and North Korea once again confirm that the security of the Indo-Pacific region and the Atlantic region are inextricably linked.
“This undermines the rules-based international order, threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula and globally, and the (South Korean) government will never stand by and let this happen.”
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North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine risks war ‘growing out of its current scale and borders’
France has warned that North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine for Vladimir Putin is a serious escalation of the war.
On Saturday France and Ukraine’s Foreign Ministers said in a joint press conference North Korean troops fighting on European soil “is a big risk” as this could see the conflict “growing out of its current scale and borders.”
There has been reports “from Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence agencies” that there has been “movement” of North Korean troops on Russian naval bases this month which “is alarming.”
Speaking in Kyiv Barrot said, “It would be serious and push the conflict into a new stage, an additional escalatory stage.”
On Monday the Russian ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev was summoned by South Korea as North Korean soldiers will be fighting in Ukraine and calling for the immediate withdrawal of those troops.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave evidence on Friday that Pyongyang troops are “ready to fight” and satellite imagery proves that there is a significant amount of troop concentration.
The NIS said those deployed in Russia who are preparing for war consists of “1,500 North Korean special forces from the areas near Chongjin, Hamhung, and Musudan.”
They added between 8 and 13 October the North Korean soldiers were transported by “four landing ships and three escort ships belonging to the Russian Pacific Fleet.”
This “is the first time that the Russian Navy has entered North Korean waters since 1990.”
Ukrainian defense intelligence (HUR) said Russia has created a “Special Buryat Battalion” which consists of North Korean soldiers.
