North Korea ratified a significant defense deal with Vladimir Putin’s Russia requiring mutual military aid, the isolated country’s state media stated, as the US, South Korea, and Ukraine claimed Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to back Russia’s conflict.
The treaty binds both countries to utilize all available resources to provide quick military aid if one is attacked. Some commentators believe that the treaty’s adoption in both nations could signify that North Korea would formally enter the Russia-Ukraine conflict shortly.
On the battlefield, Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting nearly 50,000 enemy troops in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned.
Ukraine’s senior commander, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Wednesday that Ukraine’s invasion into the Kursk operation was still successfully distracting Russian forces from making more serious attacks on the eastern front. He corroborated a New York Times claim that Moscow had gathered some 50,000 troops in Kursk.
According to the NYT, citing a US assessment, Russia has increased its force in Kursk, where North Korean forces have reportedly been stationed in recent days, without having to relocate troops from eastern Ukraine.
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