Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday that he couldn't confirm reports about North Korean…
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday that he couldn’t confirm reports about North Korean troops being sent to Russia to prepare for fighting in Ukraine, a narrative being pushed hard by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he’s looking for more support from the West.
“I’ve seen those reports in the media. I can’t confirm those reports at this point in time. This is something that we will certainly continue to investigate,” Austin said.
A day earlier, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the alliance had no evidence that North Korean troops were already fighting on the ground in Ukraine. “At this moment, our official position is that we cannot confirm reports that North Koreans are actively now as soldiers engaged in the war effort,” he said.
South Korea’s spy agency claimed in a statement on Friday that North Korea sent 1,500 special operations soldiers to eastern Russia to support the war in Ukraine. Seoul cited satellite images that purported to show a Russian ship moving North Korean soldiers and other images that showed troop formations inside eastern Russia…
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