{"id":247787,"date":"2025-02-27T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/north-korea-is-sending-more-troops-to-russia-south-koreas-spy-agency-says\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:09:27","slug":"north-korea-is-sending-more-troops-to-russia-south-koreas-spy-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/north-korea-is-sending-more-troops-to-russia-south-koreas-spy-agency-says\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Is Sending More Troops to Russia, South Korea\u2019s Spy Agency Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/27\/multimedia\/27nkorea-russia-vkct\/27nkorea-russia-vkct-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"North Korea Is Sending More Troops to Russia, South Korea\u2019s Spy Agency Says\" title=\"North Korea Is Sending More Troops to Russia, South Korea\u2019s Spy Agency Says\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/23\/world\/asia\/north-korea-military-russia-what-to-know.html\" title=\"\">heavy casualties<\/a> it has suffered in the war between Russia and Ukraine, North Korea appears to have sent more troops to Russia as its soldiers re-entered frontline combat, South Korea\u2019s spy agency said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The National Intelligence Service, South Korea\u2019s main spy agency, said it was still trying to assess the size of the new deployment. But its brief statement on Thursday followed a report in a South Korean newspaper, JoongAng, citing anonymous sources, that North Korea has sent up to 3,000 additional troops since January by ship and military cargo planes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">North Korea <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/17\/world\/asia\/north-korea-russia-military-deal.html\" title=\"\">sent<\/a> an estimated 11,000 troops to Russia late last year, and has supplied large shipments of artillery shells, missiles and other conventional weapons. The troops were sent to the Kursk region, where they fought alongside Russian forces to help them regain territory lost to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the North Korean soldiers pulled back from the front lines in January after suffering heavy casualties, according to Ukrainian and U.S. officials. They hailed from North Korea\u2019s highly disciplined special warfare units, but were badly prepared for drone attacks on the mostly open and flat battlefields in eastern Europe. Thousands have been killed or wounded, according to South Korean officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that North Korean troops were back on the front lines, a view echoed by the South Korean spy agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFollowing a monthlong lull, North Korean troops were placed back in the frontline region of Kursk starting in the first week of February,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian war against Ukraine is the first major overseas armed conflict in decades to which North Korea has sent its soldiers, helping its military gain valuable lessons in real-life, modern warfare despite the heavy casualties, military analysts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">South Korean officials have also expressed concerns that North Korea was receiving food, oil and advanced weapons technologies from Russia in return for its troops and artillery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has sought to upgrade his nuclear and other weapons programs and find new diplomatic partners for his pariah government since his diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump collapsed in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kim made Russian President Vladimir V. Putin a new ally by supplying Moscow with badly needed ammunition and troops. When Mr. Putin met with Mr. Kim in Pyongyang in June last year, they revived <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/world\/asia\/putin-meets-kim-north-korea.html\" title=\"\">a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January, he has vowed to end the war. He has also hinted that he was interested in reviving diplomacy with the North Korean leader. But Mr. Kim has not publicly responded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/world\/asia\/north-korea-troops-russia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the heavy casualties it has suffered in the war between Russia and Ukraine, North Korea appears to have sent more troops to Russia as its soldiers re-entered frontline combat, South Korea\u2019s spy agency said on Thursday. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea\u2019s main spy agency, said it was still trying to assess the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/27\/multimedia\/27nkorea-russia-vkct\/27nkorea-russia-vkct-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2539,137233,3096,117867,1359,17318,169034,1358,52859,202,5961,6967,1512,2536,931],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247789,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247787\/revisions\/247789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}