Western leaders have described the North Korean military deployment as a significant escalation that could also deal a blow to relations in the Indo-Pacific region. file | Photo Credit: AP
North Korea’s top diplomats are set to hold talks in Moscow on Wednesday (October 30, 2024) following reports sent by Pyongyang. thousands of soldiers in russia To support its actions in Ukraine.
Pentagon’s statement came after the arrival of Foreign Minister Cho Son Hui North Korea has deployed about 10,000 troops in Russia To fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks”.
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Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday (Oct. 29, 2024) that a “relatively small number” of North Korean troops are now in the Kursk region, where Russia has struggled to push back a Ukrainian incursion. It remains to be seen how Moscow and Pyongyang will use them.
Western leaders have described the North Korean military deployment as a significant escalation that could also deal a blow to relations in the Indo-Pacific region.
Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have specified an agenda for Ms. Choi’s talks in Moscow, but in a closed-door hearing in South Korea’s parliament, South Korea’s spy agency said Ms. Choi would discuss sending additional troops to Russia. Can participate in high level discussions. And to negotiate what the North will get in return.
South Korean and Western officials have expressed concern that Russia could offer technology Which could further escalate the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program.
Moscow and Pyongyang have reacted ambiguously to South Korean and Western claims of North Korean troop deployment in Russia, and have stressed that their military cooperation is in accordance with international law, without directly acknowledging the presence of the North’s forces in Russia. is in accordance with.
The US and its allies have also accused North Korea of providing Russia with millions of artillery shells and other equipment to fuel its military action in Ukraine.
Russia has joined with China to block US-led efforts at the Security Council to tighten sanctions on North Korea over its latest missile test. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine In 2022. Russia also vetoed a UN resolution in March to extend the mandate of monitors, in a move that effectively ended oversight by UN experts of Security Council sanctions against North Korea.
In a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday (October 29, 2024), South Korean President Yun Suk Yeol said that deeper military cooperation between North Korea and Russia could pose a “major security threat” to Seoul , if the North gets access to Russia. Technology and its soldiers get combat experience.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol last week raised the possibility of arms supplies to Ukraine and said Seoul was preparing retaliatory measures that could be implemented in stages depending on the degree of military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. Is.
South Korea, a growing arms exporter, has provided humanitarian aid and other non-lethal aid to Ukraine and has joined US-led economic sanctions against Moscow. Citing a long-standing policy of not providing arms to countries involved in active conflict, it has so far resisted calls by Kiev and NATO to directly supply arms to Ukraine.
published – October 30, 2024 04:59 PM IST