North Korea confirms that it dispatched troops to Russia

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea connected Monday confirmed for the archetypal clip that it has sent troops to Russia to enactment its warfare against Ukraine.

U.S., South Korean and Ukraine quality officials person said that North Korea past autumn dispatched astir 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia. But North Korea hadn’t confirmed oregon denied its reported unit deployments to Russia until Monday.

In a connection provided to North Korea’s authorities media, the North’s Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party said person Kim Jong Un had decided to nonstop combat troops to Russia nether a communal defence treaty.

It cited Kim arsenic saying that the troops’ deployment was meant to “annihilate and hitch retired the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate the Kursk country successful practice with the Russian equipped forces.”

“They who fought for justness are each heroes and representatives of the grant of the motherland,” Kim said, according to the statement.

In February, South Korea’s spy bureau said North Korea appears to person sent further troops to Russia, aft its soldiers deployed connected the Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered dense casualties.

In January, the NIS said astir 300 North Korean soldiers had died and different 2,700 had been injured. Zelenskyy earlier enactment the fig of killed oregon wounded North Koreans astatine 4,000, though U.S. estimates were little astatine astir 1,200.