The NATO This Monday, he asked Russia and North Korea to “immediately” end the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Russian territory to support Moscow in the war against Ukraine.
“Today I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean military units have been deployed in the (Russian) Kursk region“said the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Ruttein a statement following the visit of a high-level South Korean delegation to brief the Alliance on the issue.
The transatlantic organization had already confirmed last week the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Russia and this Monday a South Korean delegation informed the North Atlantic Councilthe highest decision-making body of NATO in which the Member States are represented, on the Pyongyang’s involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Rutte said that the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia represents “a significant escalation in North Korea’s current involvement in Russia’s illegal war,” “another violation of UN Security Council resolutions” and “an “dangerous expansion of Russia’s war.”
“NATO asks Russia and North Korea stop these actions immediately“, he asserted. He added that the deepening of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea It is “a threat to Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security”. “It undermines peace on the Korean Peninsula and fuels the Russian war against Ukraine,” he said.
He highlighted that Pyongyang has already provided Moscow “millions of rounds of ammunition and ballistic missiles that are fueling a serious conflict in the heart of Europe and undermining global peace and security.
He added that in return the Russian president, Vladimir Putinis providing North Korea with military technology and “other support to circumvent international sanctions.” “The deployment of North Korean troops in Kursk is also a sign of Putin’s growing desperation. More than 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in Putin’s war and is unable to maintain its assault on Ukraine without foreign support“he stressed.
“NATO allies will continue to support a free and democratic Ukraine, because Ukraine’s security is our security“, he commented, and specified that this Monday they also talked about the need to increase military support for kyiv.
Rutte announced that during this Monday will have telephone conversations with the president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeoland with the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov.
The South Korean delegation that visited NATO headquarters in Brussels this Monday was made up of “high-level representatives” of the National Intelligence Service (NIS, for its acronym in English) and the Ministry of Defense of the Asian country, according to Rutte. Allies too shared the analyzes of their intelligence servicesaccording to the secretary general of the Alliance.
In the meeting with the South Korean delegation also The ambassadors to NATO of Australia, Japan and New Zealand were present.
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