North Korea Sends Troops to Russia to Support War Against Ukraine

SEOUL, South Korea (TRAMESH) — North Korea accepted Monday for the aboriginal time that it beatific troops to Russia to abutment its war adjoins Ukraine, adage the deployment was meant to advice Russia achieve its Kursk arena that Ukrainian armament bedeviled in an abruptness aggression aftermost year.

U.S., South Korean and Ukraine intelligence admiral accept said North Korea accomplished about 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia aftermost abatement in its aboriginal accord in a above armed action back the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. But North Korea hadn’t accepted or denied it appear troop deployments to Russia until Monday.

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The North Korean advertisement came two canicule afterwards Russia’s top accepted said all Ukrainian troops accept been affected from genitalia of Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian admiral denied the claim.

North Korean baton Kim Jong Un assertively to accelerate action troops to Russia beneath a alternate aegis treaty, the North’s Central Aggressive Commission said in a account agitated by accompaniment media. The treaty, signed by Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2024, requires both countries to use all accessible agency to accommodate actual aggressive abetment if either is attacked.

It cited Kim as adage the deployment was meant to “annihilate and clean out the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and deliver the Kursk breadth in cooperation with the Russian armed forces.”

“They who fought for amends are all heroes and assembly of the account of the motherland,” Kim said, according to the statement.

Kim said that a cairn will anon be erected in Pyongyang to mark North Korea’s action feats and that flowers will be laid afore the tombstones of the collapsed soldiers. Kim said the government charge booty accomplish to preferentially amusement and booty affliction of the families of the soldiers who took allotment in the war.

The North Korean account didn’t say how abounding troops North Korea eventually beatific and how abounding of them had died. But in March, South Korea’s aggressive said that about 4,000 North Korean soldiers had been dead or blood-soaked in the Russia-Ukraine war fronts. the South Korean aggressive additionally adjourned at the time that North Korea beatific about 3,000 added troops to Russia beforehand this year.

North Korean soldiers are awful acclimatized and able-bodied trained, but assemblage say they’ve become accessible targets for bombinate and arms attacks on Russian-Ukraine battlefields due to their abridgement of action acquaintance and benightedness with the terrain. Still, Ukrainian aggressive and intelligence admiral accept adjourned that the North Koreans acquired acute battlefield acquaintance and accept been key to Russia’s action of cutting Ukraine by throwing ample numbers of soldiers into the action for Kursk.

North Korean Troops Fight Alongside Russian Forces in Ukraine’s Kursk Region

In a Kremlin affair Saturday, Valery Gerasimov, arch of the accepted agents for Russia’s armed forces, abreast Putin of Russia’s regaining of the Kursk region. Gerasimov additionally accepted that North Korean soldiers fought adjoin Ukrainian troops the Kursk arena and “demonstrated aerial professionalism, showed fortitude, adventuresomeness and boldness in battle.”

Ukraine’s Accepted Agents countered that its arresting operation in assertive areas in Kursk was continuing.

In March, Kim bidding his abiding abutment for Russia’s war in Ukraine during a affair with a top Russian aegis official, Sergei Shoigu, in Pyongyang. Accompaniment media letters said Kim and Shoigu reaffirmed their charge to advocate the alternate aegis treaty. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Russian media the governments were discussing a abeyant appointment by Kim to Moscow.

North Korea has been bartering an all-inclusive cardinal of accepted weapons to Russia as well. South Korea, the U.S. and their ally anguish that Russia could accolade North Korea by appointment high-tech weapons technologies that can acutely enhance its nuclear weapons program. North Korea is accepted to accept bread-and-butter and added abetment from Russia as well.