{"id":119647,"date":"2024-10-29T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119647"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:22:47","slug":"north-korea-has-sent-about-10000-troops-to-russia-to-likely-fight-against-ukraine-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119647","title":{"rendered":"North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to likely fight against Ukraine, Pentagon says"},"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>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within \u201cthe next several weeks,\u201d the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ukraine\">intensify the almost three-year war<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-north-korea-war-735ab717dcf92a718adcb68bfbddc653\">jolt relations in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the North Korean soldiers have already moved closer to Ukraine, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said, and were believed to be heading for the Kursk border region, where Russia has been <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\">struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte NATO confirmed recent Ukrainian intelligence reports that some North Korean military units were already in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p>Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe\u2019s biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine\u2019s weary and overstretched army. It will also stoke geopolitical tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the wider Indo-Pacific region, including Japan and Australia, Western officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to reshape global power dynamics. He sought to build a counterbalance to Western influence with a <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\">summit of BRICS countries<\/a><\/span>, including the leaders of China and India, in Russia last week. He has sought direct help for the war from Iran, which has supplied drones, and North Korea, which has shipped large amounts of ammunition, according to Western governments.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte told reporters in Brussels that the North Korean deployment represents \u201ca significant escalation\u201d in Pyongyang\u2019s involvement in the conflict and \u201ca dangerous expansion of Russia\u2019s war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden also called the deployment \u201cdangerous. Very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with their South Korean counterparts later this week in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Singh said Austin and Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun will discuss the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine. There will be no limitations on the use of U.S.-provided weapons on those forces, Singh said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we see DPRK troops moving in towards the front lines, they are co-belligerents in the war,\u201d Singh said, using the acronym for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. \u201cThis is a calculation that North Korea has to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shrugged off Rutte\u2019s comments and noted that Pyongyang and Moscow <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\">signed a joint security pact<\/a><\/span> last June. He stopped short of confirming North Korean soldiers were in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov claimed that Western military instructors long have been covertly deployed to Ukraine to help its military use long-range weapons provided by Western partners.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, whose defenses are under severe Russian pressure in its eastern Donetsk region, could get more bleak news from next week\u2019s U.S. presidential election. A Donald Trump victory could <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-ukraine-war-russia-harris-trump-b709d17bf1e81531853bd85fb8414ece\">see key U.S. military help dwindle.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Moscow, the Defense Ministry announced Monday that Russian troops have captured the Donetsk village of Tsukuryne \u2014 the latest settlement to succumb to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-pokrovsk-df997d0f23bd7dcdfc6f20080ab133e7\">the slow-moving Russian onslaught<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte spoke in Brussels after a high-level South Korean delegation, including top intelligence and military officials as well as senior diplomats, briefed the alliance\u2019s 32 national ambassadors at NATO headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte said NATO is \u201cactively consulting within the alliance, with Ukraine, and with our Indo-Pacific partners,\u201d on developments. He said he was due to talk soon with South Korea\u2019s president and Ukraine\u2019s defense minister. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to monitor the situation closely,\u201d he said. He did not take questions after the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The South Koreans showed no evidence of North Korean troops in Kursk, according to European officials who were present for the 90-minute exchange and spoke to The Associated Press about the security briefing on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how or when NATO allies might respond to the North Korean involvement. They could, for example, lift restrictions that prevent Ukraine from using Western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes on Russian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, citing intelligence reports, claimed last Friday that North Korean troops would be <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-north-korea-troops-9d83c419ef741259d09860b576b8a27d\">on the battlefield within days<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He previously said his government had information that some 10,000 troops from North Korea were being readied to join Russian forces fighting against his country.<\/p>\n<p>Days before Zelenskyy spoke, American and South Korean officials said there was evidence North Korea had <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-north-korea-war-735ab717dcf92a718adcb68bfbddc653\">dispatched troops to Russia<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Copp reported from Washington. 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