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North Korea on Monday confirmed for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine, two days after Moscow’s military chief openly acknowledged Pyongyang’s contribution for the first time.
In a front-page article in the party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission lauded the DPRK combat units for “their heroic feats in repelling and crushing the grave acts of sovereignty infringement committed by the Ukrainian authorities” in Russia’s western Kursk region that borders Ukraine.
North Korea on Monday confirmed for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine, two days after Moscow’s military chief openly acknowledged Pyongyang’s contribution for the first time.
In a front-page article in the party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission lauded the DPRK combat units for “their heroic feats in repelling and crushing the grave acts of sovereignty infringement committed by the Ukrainian authorities” in Russia’s western Kursk region that borders Ukraine.
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Shreyas Reddy is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.
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