Source: SFGate
“The Biden administration said Thursday that it has information that some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia’s Kursk region near Ukraine’s border and preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops. In a dramatic moment during a U.N. Security Council meeting, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Wood, asked for more time to add to earlier comments condemning the increasing military cooperation between Russia and North Korea. ‘We just received some information, just coming in now, that right now there are some 8,000 DPRK soldiers in Kursk Oblast,’ Wood said, using the acronym for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. The Kremlin’s forces have struggled to push back a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk. ‘And I have a very respectful question for my Russian colleague: does Russia still maintain that there are no DPRK troops in Russia?'” (10/31/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/north-korean-troop-deployment-in-russia-is-key-19876732.php