North Korea deploys additional troops to Russia, South Korean intelligence says
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North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia, an official for South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency claimed on Feb. 27.
An official from Seoul’s spy agency told AFP that “some additional troop deployments appearing to have taken place,” in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, adding that other troops had been “redeployed” within the region.
No information was immediately available as to how many new troops were being sent into Russia, with the official adding that the “exact scale is still being assessed."
The Kyiv Independent could not immediately verify the claims made by the National Intelligence Agency.
Up to 12,000 North Korean troops were deployed to Kursk Oblast last fall to support Russian forces in countering a Ukrainian incursion launched in August 2024.
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