US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also says there is evidence that North Korean troops are in Russia, though it remains to be seen what they will be doing there
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Pyongyang had promised to provide a total of about 10,000 troops, whose deployment was expected to be completed by December, the lawmakers told reporters after being briefed bywere detected in September and October,” Park Sun-won, a member of a parliamentary intelligence committee, said after the briefing.
Austin, speaking in Rome, said the alleged North Korean deployment could be further evidence that the Russian military was having problems over manpower in its war against Ukraine. The latest numbers came after Seoul’s National Intelligence Service said on Friday the North had sent some 1,500 special forces personnel to Russia by ship.
Lee also said the agency confirmed that Russia had recruited a “large number” of interpreters for the North Korean soldiers, while training them in the use of military equipment such as drones.
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