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South Korean intelligence has found that North Korea has dispatched 12,000 troops including special operation forces to support Russias war against Ukraine, news reports said on Friday...
Yonhap news agency cited the National Intelligence Service (NIS) as that the North Korean troops have already left the country...
The NIS didnt immediately confirm the report, but South Koreas presidential office said in a statement that President Yoon Suk Yeol had presided over an emergency meeting earlier Friday to discuss North Koreas troop dispatch to Ukraine..
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government has intelligence that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities could turn the conflict into a world war...
The US, South Korea and their partners have accused North Korea of supplying Russia with artillery shells, missiles and other equipment to help fuel its war on Ukraine.. Outside officials and experts say North Korea in exchange possibly received badly needed food, economic aid and technology assistance aimed at upgrading Kims nuclear-armed military..
