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Defense Minister Lloyd Austin has said that there is evidence that North Korea has sent its troops to Russia. Meanwhile, South Korea’s intelligence chief told lawmakers that 3,000 North Korean soldiers are in Russia, who are being trained before being deployed to the battlefields of Ukraine.
Seoul. US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin has said that there is evidence that North Korea has sent its troops to Russia. Meanwhile, South Korea’s intelligence chief told lawmakers that three thousand North Korean soldiers are in Russia, who are being trained to operate drones and other equipment before being deployed to battlefields in Ukraine. “What are they really doing?” Austin told reporters on Wednesday, according to a video posted by The Washington Post newspaper. This remains to be seen. These are things we need to resolve.”
He said if Russia were to get involved in the Ukraine war, it would be “a very serious issue” and would have implications for Europe and the Indo-Pacific region. South Korean intelligence was the first to make public the report that the Russian Navy had transported 1,500 North Korean special forces to Russia last week, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his government had intelligence that 10,000 North Korean soldiers were being transported to Russia. are being prepared to join the Russian army. The US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had not previously formally confirmed the sending of troops by North Korea but have warned of the danger of such a development. Russia and North Korea have so far denied military activities.
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