Yoon Suk-yeol says North Korea is providing weapons to Moscow amid its ongoing war on Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed that Russia’s Pacific Fleet and transport aircraft had fetched 1,500 North Korean special forces to training bases in Russia’s Far East. Pyongyang also dispatched some 4,000 laborers to further bolster Russia’s war-making capacity.

The alleged deployment of North Korean soldiers to aid Russia ’s war effort in Ukraine has prompted South Korea to warn that it could send military monitors as well as weapons to Kyiv.

North Korean troops have begun engaging in combat operations alongside Russian forces, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, expressing concern that Russia had turned to North Korea for soldiers to fight in its war with Ukraine.

North Korean soldiers deployed to the Kursk region of Russia have begun combat operations against Ukrainian troops, the U.S. State Department confirmed Tuesday.

South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday that North Korean troops dispatched to Russia are "already engaging in combat operations" against Ukraine. "North Korean soldiers dispatched to Russia have moved to the Kursk region over the past two weeks and their deployment to battlefields has been completed,