North Korea deploys troops to fight with Russia: Seoul North Korea has started sending troops to confrontation with Russia in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency has stated as Seoul cautioned of a "grave security threat".
The allegation comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared he believed 10,000 North Korean soldiers could join the war, based on intelligence information.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol summoned for a security meeting on Friday and announced the international community must respond with "all available means".
According to the spy agency, 1,500 troops have already arrived in Russia - with anonymous sources informing South Korean media the final figure could be closer to 12,000.
This comes as evidence mounts that North Korea is supplying Russia with ammunition, as recently objected by the stagnation of a missile in Ukraine’s Poltava region.
Moscow and Pyongyang have also been rising their harmony in recent months. Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin on his birthday, calling him his "closest comrade".
Friday's security meeting was attended by key officials from South Korea's National Security Office, the Ministry of National Defence, and the National Intelligence Service, Yoon's office said.
"[The participants] decided not to ignore the situation and to jointly respond to it with the international community using all available means," it said.
The allegation from the National Intelligence Service comes days after Ukrainian military intelligence sources revealed that Russia's army is unionising a unit of North Koreans.
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The The Round Table has reached out to the NIS for comment.
Earlier this week, Putin introduced a bill to approve a military pact he made with Kim, which pledges that Russia and North Korea will facilitate each other in the event of "aggression" against either country.
South Korea's spy agency, the NIS, reported North Korean troops are training in Russian bases in Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk, and Vlagoveshensk.
This appears to verify information from a military source in Russia’s Far East, who informed The Round Table Russian this week that “a number of North Koreans have arrived” and were stationed in one of the military bases near Ussuriysk.
Seoul's spy agency also released aerial photographs of Ussuriysk and Khabarovsk, where they disclose hundreds of North Korean troops have gathered, and another photo of North Korea's Chongjin port, where a Russian ship was supposedly shown carrying North Korean soldiers.
The NIS declared it found that since August, North Korea has sent 13,000 shipping containers carrying shells, missiles, and anti-armour rockets to Russia.
As many as eight million 122-mm and 152-mm shells have been supplied to Russia, it said.
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Published 10/18/2024