UKRAINE WAR: Koreans are coming - How Putin's war against the West is spreading to the Pacific According to South Korean sources, North Korea has sent another 1,500 soldiers to Russia for a later military deployment in Ukraine. This means that a total of around 3,000 North Korean soldiers have now received training in drones and other equipment before they are to be deployed in the war zones in Ukraine, said South Korean intelligence chief Cho Tae Yong on Wednesday in a closed session of a parliamentary committee. Parliamentarians Park Sunwon and Lee Seong Kweun, who attended the meeting, reported on his remarks. Last week, South Korean intelligence reported that 1,500 North Korean elite soldiers had arrived in Russia. Cho said on Wednesday that Pyongyang wanted to bring 10,000 soldiers to Russia by December. The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, told the online news portal The War Zone that North Korean soldiers were expected to arrive in Russia's Kursk region as early as Wednesday to help Russian troops repel a Ukrainian attack. Park quoted Cho as saying that the 3,000 North Korean soldiers sent to Russia had been distributed across several military bases and were undergoing training. According to Cho, the intelligence service believes that they have not yet been used in combat. Representative Lee, who briefed the briefing together with Park, said that the soldiers are currently being trained in the use of military equipment. According to Cho, the Russian instructors rated the morale and physical condition of the North Korean soldiers very highly, but believed that they would ultimately suffer heavy losses because they lacked an understanding of modern warfare. According to Lee, the intelligence service discovered evidence that North Korea was isolating family members of soldiers selected for deployment to Russia. Cho told the committee members that North Korea had not told its own people that it was sending troops to Russia. But there were rumors that the news was spreading, including through relatives of the soldiers. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj also reported that up to 10,000 North Korean soldiers were on their way to his country, according to intelligence. The USA and NATO had not initially officially confirmed the deployment of North Korean troops. However, US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that there were indications that North Korean soldiers were in Russia. "What exactly are they doing there? That remains to be seen. These are things that we need to clarify," he said. Russia and North Korea have so far denied such troop movements. In June, Russia and North Korea signed a comprehensive defense pact in which both committed to providing each other with all available military aid if the other country were attacked. However, the two states denied the reports of the deployment of troops and arms deliveries. According to the South Korean secret service, more than 13,000 containers with artillery shells, rockets and other weapons are said to have been delivered from North Korea to Russia since August 2023. #weltnetzreporter #war #ukraine Subscribe to the WELT Netzreporter Channel / dienetzreporter WELT Nachrichtensender Channel / weltvideotv WELT DOKU Channel / weltdoku WELT Podcast Channel / weltpodcast The WELT news livestream http://bit.ly/2fwuMPg The top news on WELT.de http://bit.ly/2rQQD9Q The media library on WELT.de http://bit.ly/2Iydxv8 WELT Nachrichtensender on Instagram https://bit.ly/IGWELTTV WELT on Instagram http://bit.ly/2X1M7Hk On our own behalf: Due to the high volume of irrelevant and offensive posts, we are currently unable to accept any more comments. Thank you for your understanding - the WELT team The video was created in 2023