North Korean Troops Are in Action against the Ukrainian Army

At least that’s the assessment of the U.S. government, according to Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s spokesman, who told the press on Monday that the North Korean force sent to Russia over the course of the fall entered large-scale combat operations last week.

Western intelligence services have estimated that something like 10,000 North Koreans have deployed to Russia’s Kursk oblast — the Russian province that was partially overrun by the Ukrainian army in a surprise attack in August. The Ukrainians still hold a couple hundred square miles of Russian territory around Kursk, but they have been slowly driven back toward the border as tens of thousands of Russian and, now, North Korean troops have gone on the offensive in recent months.

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At least that’s the assessment of the U.S. government, according to Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s spokesman, who told the press on Monday that the North Korean force sent to Russia over the course of the fall entered large-scale combat operations last week.

Western intelligence services have estimated that something like 10,000 North Koreans have deployed to Russia’s Kursk oblast — the Russian province that was partially overrun by the Ukrainian army in a surprise attack in August. The Ukrainians still hold a couple hundred square miles of Russian territory around Kursk, but they have been slowly driven back toward the border as tens of thousands of Russian and, now, North Korean troops have gone on the offensive in recent months.