South Korea says 12,000 troops from the North have already been deployed to Russia.
October 18, 2024
South Korea’s president warned Friday that North Korea’s involvement in the war in Ukraine poses a “grave security threat” to the world.
President Yoon Suk Yeol held a security meeting Friday with key intelligence, military and national security officials to discuss Pyongyang’s participation in Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s offensive against Ukraine.
According to the presidential office, the participants “shared the view that the current situation, in which the close military ties between Russia and North Korea have expanded beyond the movement of military supplies to the actual deployment of troops, poses a grave security threat” to South Korea and the international community.
South Korea’s spy agency said Friday it believes North Korea has already begun deploying four brigades totaling 12,000 troops, including special forces, to the war in Ukraine.
Separately, the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate also shared the agency’s assessment that there are now nearly 11,000 North Korean infantry troops training in Russia to fight in Ukraine. “They will be ready on Nov. 1,” Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov told The War Zone.
The North Korean troops will use Russian equipment and ammunition, Budanov said. The first cadre of 2,600 troops will go to Kursk inside Russia where Ukraine began a surprise incursion in the late summer, but it is unclear where the remaining North Korean troops will be posted, he added.
In June, Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty that commits both countries to provide military assistance to each other if either is attacked.
The longer the West dithers, the worse things will get on this planet. The longer their cowardice lasts, the more encouragement trash countries and terrorists will get. It’s as simple as that. As the problems with them grow, so will the costs. Freedom is never for free.
But, SK has also been quite lethargic and timid in supplying Ukraine with weapons and ammo. Only strength, speed, and determination can prevent the situation from deteriorating continuously.
What a situation. Trump is chummy with all the worlds despots, while Biden is scared of his own shadow. If this carries on, democracy will be slowly killed off.
I fear for our future if something positive doesn’t happen soon.
Agreed. I don’t see much leadership in “the West.” Macron is trying, Scholz seems to be thinking just about elections, the UK seems preoccupied, the same with Poland, and Biden can’t find “consensus.” If there isn’t a consensus now that putin must be stopped and buried, there never will be. Leadership doesn’t require a consensus, it requires the wisdom to know right from wrong, good from evil. If Biden can’t see that now then he’s even more corrupt than I thought.
He won’t see that. He will not go out with a bang, but with a whimper, like this entire presidency has been.
North Korea blew up all roads and rails to South Korea because they won’t have enough troops to defend themselves no more. 🤣