“This means that we do not exclude the possibility of providing weapons,” he added, specifying, without saying more, that “if we engage in support in terms of armaments, we consider as a priority weapons defensive.”
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine, to support the Kremlin forces.
During the same conference, Mr. Yoon said he had agreed, during a telephone exchange with US President-elect Donald Trump, to a meeting which would take place “in the near future”.
“I think we will have the opportunity to meet during this year,” he said.
What does North Korea’s army represent? “Guns, human bombs”, obsolete equipment but also nuclear weapons
During this telephone exchange, the two heads of state discussed several topics related to North Korea, such as “the sending of more than 7,000 garbage balloons, the jamming of GPS” and the North Korean missile launches. , noted Mr. Yoon.
On Wednesday, the upper house of the Russian Parliament ratified a mutual defense treaty with North Korea, concluded during a rare visit by Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in June, which notably provides for “immediate military aid” reciprocal in the event of attack against one of the two countries.
A participation of North Korean soldiers in the fighting, which the West believes is imminent, would be a new blow for the Ukrainian troops, lacking men and weapons, who are retreating on many sections of the front.
