MADRID 29 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The General Staff of the South Korean Army announced this Sunday that North Korea is already finalizing a new military deployment to support Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.
This deployment would be added to the North Korean military already in the Russian Kursk region to respond to the Ukrainian incursion that began in August into Russian territory or it would be a rotation contingent.
“A comprehensive intelligence assessment shows that North Korea is preparing to rotate or increase troop deployment to Russia, while currently supplying 240-millimeter rocket launchers and 170-mm self-propelled artillery,” the General Staff said in a statement. picked up by the official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
“There are also some signs that the North is increasingly moving toward manufacturing and supplying explosive drones, first revealed during Kim Jong Un’s on-site inspection in November,” he added. the South Korean Army.
This same week, South Korean authorities estimated that around 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in fighting in Russia’s Kursk region between the armies of Ukraine and Russia, which has military backing from Pyongyang.