{"id":118445,"date":"2024-10-26T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118445"},"modified":"2024-10-26T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:04:10","slug":"ukraines-zelenskyy-says-north-korean-troops-are-poised-to-join-the-war-cancels-un-chiefs-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118445","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Zelenskyy says North Korean troops are poised to join the war, cancels UN chief&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-north-korea-war-735ab717dcf92a718adcb68bfbddc653\">Western officials have warned<\/a><\/span> that North Korean units joining the fight would stoke the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ukraine\">almost three-year war<\/a><\/span> and bring geopolitical consequences as far away as the Indo-Pacific region. <\/p>\n<p>The possibility has alarmed leaders and deepened diplomatic tensions. <\/p>\n<p>White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Friday that the top national security advisers for the United States, Japan and South Korea met and \u201cexpressed grave concern\u201d about North Korea\u2019s troop deployments for potential use with Russia on the battlefield against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said that the national security advisers from the three countries \u201ccall on Russia and the DPRK to cease these actions that only serve to expand the security implications of Russia\u2019s brutal and illegal war beyond Europe and into the Indo-Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible that there are now more than 3,000 troops from North Korea that have been dispatched to Russia for outfitting and for training,\u201d Kirby said on a call with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said the U.S. government did not have firm intelligence assessments on where the troops were going \u201cbut we believe it is certainly possible\u201d and \u201cperhaps even likely\u201d that some of the North Korean troops would be deployed to the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukraine has held some territory since capturing it in August. But he cautioned that he did not know in what capacity and to what purpose the North Korean troops would be deployed.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official in the Ukrainian presidential office told The Associated Press on Friday that Zelenskyy had canceled a planned visit to Kyiv by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n<p>The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, said the visit was supposed to come after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-brics-summit-china-india-ukraine-war-39e90fce8443b922f4d224c65c2ec932\">this week\u2019s summit<\/a><\/span> in the Russian city of Kazan of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, which Guterres attended.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph of Guterres shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit triggered an outcry in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy, in a post on Telegram, said Ukrainian intelligence had determined that \u201cthe first North Korean military will be used by Russia in combat zones\u201d between Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Telegram that the deployment was \u201can obvious escalating move by Russia.\u201d He didn\u2019t provide any further details, including where the North Korean soldiers may be sent.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been conducting a ferocious summer campaign along the eastern front in Ukraine, gradually compelling Kyiv to surrender ground. But Russia has struggled to push Ukrainian forces out of its Kursk border region following <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-kursk-incursion-ca6d18d06606794580bdc779d2c98134\">an incursion almost three months ago<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>North Korean units were detected on Wednesday in Kursk, according to Ukraine\u2019s Main Intelligence Directorate, known by its acronym GUR.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers had undergone several weeks of training at bases in eastern Russia and had been equipped with clothes for the upcoming winter, GUR said in a statement late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It estimated the number of North Korean soldiers sent by Pyongyang to Russia at around 12,000, including some 500 officers and three generals.<\/p>\n<p>GUR provided no evidence for its claims.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said Friday on the social platform X that intelligence reports indicated the North Korean soldiers \u201cwill probably first be deployed in Kursk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of North Korean forces under a military pact between Moscow and Pyongyang brings a new dimension to the conflict, which is Europe\u2019s biggest war since World War II and has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides, including many civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. said Wednesday that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-russia-troops-ukraine-b664f8c1164e9ef859b7a618ffa92140\">3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed<\/a><\/span> to Russia and are training at several locations, calling the move very serious.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said a week ago that his government has intelligence information that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-zelenskyy-europe-victory-plan-summit-863bd5c70816449e3c92b7c1f767a2ff\">10,000 troops from North Korea are being readied<\/a><\/span> to join Russian forces fighting against his country. He said that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the conflict into a \u201cworld war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Korea had already been supplying ammunition to Russia <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-russia-north-korea-summit-ukraine-a6b8d2c12de7ee2ab6716d4747c9850e\">under a defense pact<\/a><\/span>, but putting boots on the ground could severely complicate a war that has inflamed international politics, with most Western countries supporting Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, meanwhile, has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-putin-brics-summit-china-india-31a4a4af22e9475aee322f2045701fc6\">looked for support among BRICS countries<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He has neither confirmed nor denied that North Korean troops were in Russia.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Mike Corder in The Hague and Josh Boak in Washington contributed.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ukraine\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-north-korea-troops-9d83c419ef741259d09860b576b8a27d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Friday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118445\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}