As claimed the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Lt. General Kyrylo Budanov:
11,000 North Korean troops will be ready to enter the war with Ukraine on November 1 this year. The first batch of 2,600 men is to be sent to Kursk.
“The North has chosen to send up to 12,000 troops, including a special forces unit, to the conflict in Ukraine”, according to South Korea’s spy service.
To address North Korean forces’ role in Russia’s conflict against Ukraine, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol convened an impromptu security meeting with senior military, intelligence, and national security officials, the statement stated.
“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”.
Also, the Russian military has already begun to post videos of hundreds of North Korean military personnel training and receiving Russian weapons and equipment.
Earlier, there was information about the presence of North Korean officers in the Russian-occupied Donbas and even about deaths among them. 6 North Korean officers were killed and 3 more wounded in a missile strike near Russian-occupied Donetsk, intelligence sources say on October 4.
There is no longer any doubt that the axis of evil has finally been formed – China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. And it takes part in the aggression against Ukraine daily. The large-scale reinforcement of Russia by North Korea’s military requires a decisive and large-scale response from NATO, Seoul and the EU.