When North Korea takes the path of war abroad – Libération

The announcement of a massive and unprecedented deployment of North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region, bordering Ukraine, raises questions about the use of these troops alongside the Russians and recalls Pyongyang's commitments in previous conflicts.

Let it be «imminent» or in the “next weeks”, the deployment of North Korean soldiers alongside Russian troops is now a given. And a great historic first given the number and quality of the troops involved. The Ukrainian, South Korean and American intelligence services have put forward figures which are around 10,000 or 12,000 men. Thursday, October 31, the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, declared that 8,000 North Koreans were in the border region of Kursk, in Russia. These transfers also seem to be accelerating. Forty-eight hours earlier, the Pentagon spokesperson, General Pat Ryder, assured that he was in possession of“indications that a small number” soldiers from the North “were already in the Kursk region, with some 2,000 additional” about to arrive. Almost at the same time, South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told parliamentarians that 10,900 North troops were to be deployed.