{"id":120765,"date":"2024-11-01T08:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120765"},"modified":"2024-11-01T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:31:01","slug":"about-8000-north-korean-soldiers-at-ukraine-border-says-us-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120765","title":{"rendered":"About 8,000 North Korean soldiers at Ukraine border, says US | North Korea"},"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 class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">About 8,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia on the border with Ukraine, the US secretary of state has said, warning that Moscow is preparing to deploy those troops into combat \u201cin the coming days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Antony Blinken said the US believed that North Korea had sent 10,000 troops to Russia in total, deploying them first to training bases in the far east before sending the vast majority to the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Blinken told a press conference that the North Korean troops had received Russian training in \u201cartillery, UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in frontline operations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The announcement was the clearest statement yet from the US that it anticipated the first large-scale deployment of foreign troops into the Russia-Ukraine war since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The deployment could expand the largest land war in Europe since the second world war into a multi-region conflict, tying in the rising tensions in the Korean peninsula between North and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"51ae001f-60b0-452d-9412-cebd012b95bf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:5,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;\u2018End justifies the means\u2019: high Russian death toll fails to shift opinion on Ukraine war&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;51ae001f-60b0-452d-9412-cebd012b95bf&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/high-russian-death-toll-fails-shift-opinion-ukraine-war&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cOne of the reasons that Russia is turning to these North Korean troops is that it\u2019s desperate,\u201d Blinken said during the press conference as he met South Korea\u2019s foreign and defence ministers in Washington. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/high-russian-death-toll-fails-shift-opinion-ukraine-war\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Putin has been throwing more and more Russians into a meat grinder<\/a> of his own making in Ukraine. Now he\u2019s turning to North Korean troops, and that is a clear sign of weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Blinken noted that China had a role to play on the issue, saying US and Chinese diplomats had held a \u201crobust conversation just this week\u201d and that China knows US expectations that \u201cthey\u2019ll use the influence that they have to work to curb these activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Beijing has forged a \u201cno limits\u201d partnership with Moscow, and while it has been a major ally for Pyongyang, experts say Beijing might not approve of the closer military partnership between Russia and North Korea because it sees it as destabilising in east Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Blinken\u2019s comments came hours after North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, highlighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/north-korea-missile-test-record-height-icbm-japan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a potential advancement in its missile technology<\/a> as questions continue over a potential agreement between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un for North Korea\u2019s support in the war against Ukraine in exchange for Russian military or space technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">North Korea last test-fired a ballistic missile in December 2023. Thursday\u2019s launch flew for 86 minutes \u2013 the longest recorded flight time to date \u2013 and may indicate that the country was seeking to develop missiles that could carry larger payloads for a potential strike against its enemies in the west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">US officials from the White House, state department and Pentagon have all warned Russia and North Korea against deploying North Korean troops in battle. If they did, Blinken said, they would become a \u201clegitimate military target\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Speaking before a UN security council meeting this week, the US envoy to the UN said that if Pyongyang\u2019s forces \u201center Ukraine in support of Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/30\/north-korea-troops-russia-kursk-ukraine-lloyd-austin\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">they will surely return in body bags<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Ukraine\u2019s president had earlier warned that North Korean troops could join the fight against Ukraine \u201cwithin days\u201d and that the deployment was meant to be a test of the US\u2019s and South Korea\u2019s responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Speaking in an interview on Wednesday with the South Korean radio outlet KBS, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said North Korean troops had not yet engaged in direct combat with Ukrainian forces but were preparing to be deployed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Zelenskyy said he believed Putin wanted to deploy foreign troops in order to minimise casualties among Russian troops and that Russia would \u201cstation North Korean troops on the frontlines, and will sacrifice them more than Russian troops\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Asked when that may be, he said: \u201cI believe this will occur not within months, but within days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">He also suggested North Korea could send more troops to Russia based upon how the US and South Korea respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWith this deployment of North Korean troops, Putin is currently testing the response of South Korea and the Nato member nations,\u201d Zelenskyy said in the interview from the city of Uzhhorod. \u201cAfter gauging their response, he will determine whether to expand the deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The Pentagon and South Korea\u2019s defence minister issued a warning to Pyongyang on Thursday to remove their troops from Russia, with the US warning that North Korean troops would become \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d if they fought against Ukraine directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">North Korean troops would be \u201cco-belligerents, and you have every reason to believe that \u2026 they will be killed and wounded as a result of battle,\u201d the US secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<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<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:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/north-korean-soldiers-at-ukraine-border-says-us\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia on the border with Ukraine, the US secretary of state has said, warning that Moscow is preparing to deploy those troops &hellip; 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