The United States promises new military aid to kyiv in response to North Korea’s incursion on the ground. North Koreans already at the border are expected to begin fighting soon.
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South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun stated this Thursday that North Korea has supplied more than a thousand missiles to Russia, as well as troops to fight in Ukraine alongside Moscow’s forces. “More than a thousand missiles were supplied”Kim Yong-hyun told reporters in Washington, adding that North Korea also handed over ten million ammunition to Russia.
The official spoke at a joint press conference after talks in the North American capital between the heads of diplomacy and defense of Seoul and Washington. The Secretary of Defense of the United States indicated that the USA I will announce it soon new military aid to kyivafter warning that thousands of North Korean troops were sent to the Russian Kursk region, neighboring Ukraine. “The United States will announce further security assistance to Ukraine in the coming days,” Lloyd Austin said.
About 8,000 North Korean troops are stationed in Russia’s Kursk border region and are ready to fight Ukrainian forces “in the coming days,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “We have not yet seen these troops in combat against Ukrainian forces, but we estimate that will happen in the coming days,” Blinken added.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had already declared on Monday that North Korean troops had been sent to Russia and that units had already been deployed in the Kursk region, condemning “a significant escalation” and a “dangerous expansion” of the war. But this display also demonstrates the “Growing dismay” of the Russian leaderVladimir Putin, added the head of the Atlantic Alliance, despite the slow advance of his forces in eastern Ukraine.
South Korean leader Yoon Seok-yeol commented this week that Seoul “will not sit idly by in the face of military collusion between Russia and North Korea,” which he said threatens his country’s security, according to the South Korean agency Yonhap. The same topic will take the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, to Japan on Friday and South Korea on Monday.
Ukraine has relied on financial and arms aid from Western allies since Russia invaded the country on February 24, 2022. kyiv’s allies have also enacted sanctions against key sectors of the Russian economy to try to diminish Moscow’s abilities to finance the war effort in Ukraine.
Source: Observadora
