Regardless of whether a significant number of North Korean troops are in Russia—and no incontrovertible evidence of their presence has yet shown up—the hyping by the Kiev regime, NATO, the Biden administration and the South Korean government of their alleged deployment, risks escalating the war in Ukraine to new heights, by using the North Korean issue as justification for direct NATO intervention.
In his latest provocation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed yesterday that the thousands of North Korean soldiers expected to reinforce Russian troops on the front line in Ukraine are pushing the almost three-year war beyond the borders of the warring parties—as if the U.S.-U.K.-NATO military backing of Ukraine hadn’t already done that. Zelenskyy said he had spoken to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and told him that 3,000 North Korean soldiers are already at military bases “close” to the Ukrainian front line and that he expects that deployment to increase to 12,000. “We discussed the involvement of North Korean military forces in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conclusion is clear—this war is becoming internationalized, extending beyond two countries,” Zelenskyy wrote in English and Ukrainian on his X account.
President Joe Biden, in response to a reporter’s question, said yesterday that he was “concerned” about North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk region. “Should the Ukrainians strike—strike back?” the reporter asked. “If they cross into Ukraine, yes.”
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller yesterday called Russia’s alleged training of North Korean troops a “direct” violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions. Such self-righteousness comes from an administration that has sent over $50 billion worth of weapons to the Kiev regime in a vain attempt to impose a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters yesterday that a “relatively small number” of North Korean troops are now in the Kursk region. He declined to provide a more precise number, than “approximately a couple thousand, with a smaller number already present in the Kursk region.”
Unnamed Western intelligence officials told CNN that a small number of North Korean troops are already inside Ukraine. “It seems that a good many of them are already in action,” one of the officials said on Oct. 29, referring to the North Koreans. A U.S. official, however, said the U.S. cannot yet corroborate reports that North Koreans troops are already inside Ukraine.
