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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on the 19th (local time) that he could not confirm reports that North Korea had sent troops to <a href="http://www.time.news/mega-storm-hits-southern-russia-and-ukraine/" title="“Mega storm” hits southern Russia and Ukraine“>Russia to fight in the Ukraine battlefield, but that if true, it was a cause for concern.
According to AFP and CNN, Secretary Austin made this statement when meeting with reporters in Naples, Italy, where the first meeting of the defense ministers of the G7 was held.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported on the 18th that North Korea is moving 1,500 special forces soldiers to a base in the Russian Far East for adaptation training, and that there is a high possibility that these troops will be deployed to Ukraine and participate in combat.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that North Korea was preparing to send 10,000 troops to support Russian forces on the Ukrainian front.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot also attended a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Civha in Kiev on the 19th and warned that if the information that North Korea had decided to send troops to join Russia is true, it would be a serious act that could lead to an escalation of war.
Foreign Minister Baro said, “The dispatch of troops to North Korea will lead to a new stage of further expansion of Russia’s invasion,” and criticized, “This is a very serious situation, and the reason Russia is dragging North Korea in is to export the conflict only to Asia.”
However, Mark Rutte, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), emphasized that at this stage there is no evidence that North Korea was deployed to Ukraine.
Both Russia and North Korea have so far dismissed claims and reports that North Korea is sending troops to Ukraine as groundless.
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