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I am increasingly concerned that the Kremlin plans to use these North Korean soldiers to support Russia's combat operations in Russia's Kursk region, near the border with Ukraine,
Austin said at the Pentagon in a news conference Wednesday with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun [Putin has] gone to other countries for weapons and munitions, and now he's going to other countries for people,
They’re doing this because Putin has lost a lot of troops,
The affect really depends on how they are used and how many North Korean troops are sent,
We believe that the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] has sent around 10,000 soldiers in total to train in eastern Russia that will probably augment Russian forces near Ukraine over the next several weeks,
Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told journalists, using an abbreviation for North Korea's official name Turning to a pariah state like North Korea for troops just underscores how much trouble he is in,
In light of escalating geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is imperative for us to have modern strategic forces that are in a state of constant combat readiness,
Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript In our meetings today we shared our deep concerns about the deployment of [North Korean] troops to Russia,
Austin said in a press conference at the Pentagon I do not necessarily believe that the North Korean troops deployment to Russia results in the changes in the possibility of war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula, ... North Korea is very likely to ask for technology transfers in diverse areas, including the technologies relating to tactical nuclear weapons technologies related to their advancement of ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missiles], also those regarding reconnaissance satellite and those regarding SSBNs [ballistic missile submarines] as well
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