North Korea has deployed extra troops to Russia: Seoul spy company

North Korean troops. Picture used for consultant function solely.
| Picture Credit score: KCNA by way of Reuters

North Korea has despatched extra troopers to Russia and re-deployed a number of to the frontline in Kursk, Seoul’s spy company informed AFP on Thursday (February 27, 2025).

South Korean and Western intelligence businesses have mentioned that greater than 10,000 troopers from the reclusive state had been despatched to Russia final 12 months to assist it battle a shock Ukrainian offensive into the Kursk border area.

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Earlier this month, Seoul mentioned North Korean troopers beforehand preventing alongside Russia’s Military on the Kursk frontline had not been engaged in fight since mid-January.

Ukraine additionally mentioned that they had been withdrawn following heavy losses.

On Thursday, an official from Seoul’s Nationwide Intelligence Company mentioned that they had been “redeployed” there.

That got here alongside “some further troop deployments showing to have taken place,” the official added.

“The precise scale remains to be being assessed,” the official mentioned.

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Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have confirmed the deployment.

However the two nations signed an settlement, together with a mutual defence clause, when Russian President Vladimir Putin made a uncommon go to to the nuclear-armed North final 12 months.