NATO said that the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia is a “dangerous expansion” of the support that Pyongyang provides to Moscow for its war in Ukraine, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
Thirty-two alliance members today issued a joint statement warning that “deepening military cooperation” between Russia and North Korea “has a profound impact on Euro-Atlantic security and has implications for the Indo-Pacific region”. Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Ukraine also supported the text.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said last month that North Korea had sent troops to Russia and that some of them were already stationed in the Kursk region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday said after a meeting with Rutte that the West should give a “more decisive response” of Pyongyang.