South Korea has warned on Friday that North Korea is deploying four brigades totalling 12,000 soldiers to fight inside Ukraine.
South Korea has warned this is a “grave security threat” to the international community and for Europe, the Seoul’s presidential office announced on Friday.
South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement, “The participants … shared the view that the current situation where Russia and North Korea‘s closer ties have gone beyond the movement of military supplies to actual dispatch of troops is a grave security threat not only to our country but to the international community,” the Kyiv Independent reports.
Their statement added, “They also decided not to stand by and will respond by mobilizing all available means in cooperation with the international community.”
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South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said that North Korea will be sending their special forces and 12,000 soldiers to fight Vladimir Putin’s war.
Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov warned that there is almost 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia and they will be “ready to fight” by 1 November, this will be a game changer for the Kremlin.
He said that there be a little over 2,500 troops who will be deployed to the Kursk Oblast inside Russia where Ukrainian troops started their incursion on 6 August.
Budanov said that currently “we don’t’ have the full picture.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Thursday that this is a “first steps to World War” as the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin will “actually involve” North Korea troops in the war.
President Zelensky told officials in Brussels, “Iran gave (Russia) drones, license to produce these drones and missiles. But not people, not officially. And here we see this first step in this war.”
Washington has said that they “can’t confirm or corroborate” if North Korea has sent soldiers to fight in Ukraine.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) Press Secretary General Patrick Ryder said at a press briefing, “If true, that would demonstrate an increase in the cooperation between Russia and North Korea.”
“And so it just demonstrates the desperation in terms of identifying additional forces for their military,” Ryder added.
