North Korea Sends More Troops to Russia to Support Putin’s War

North Korea has sent more than a thousand additional troops to Russia this year to help President Vladimir Putin’s war efforts against Ukraine, South Korea’s Yonhap News reported.

The troops were dispatched in the first two months of this year, Yonhap said Thursday, citing military sources it did not identify. Pyongyang already dispatched thousands of soldiers last year to bolster Russia’s armed forces.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said there are signs of additional troop deployment, but it is still trying to confirm the exact size of the latest dispatch, broadcaster YTN said.

The spy agency did not ...