NATO on Monday confirmed that North Korean troops have been sent to help Russia in its almost three-year war against Ukraine and said some have already been deployed in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion.
“Today, I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia, and that North Korean military units have been deployed to the Kursk region,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told reporters.
Rutte said the move represents “a significant escalation” in North Korea’s involvement in the conflict and marks “a dangerous expansion of Russia’s war.”
Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine’s 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.
This won’t be popular with the North Korean people. Kim’s approval rating might drop as low as 99%.
Only temporarily…
I’m sure it’s already back up to 100% after they sent that 1% straight to Ukraine.
I am sure Russia won’t mind if other countries troops join Ukraine now riiight?
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And so it seems the escalation many worried would be the case has been confirmed. What a mess. I have a bad feeling about this.
Historians will probably name this escalation as the point where ww3 started. Even though it already has I guess, with all those proxy wars.
Honestly was thinking the same. Now we sit and wait for what the response will be… 😬
