North Korea sending more troops to fight for Russia, Seoul says

North Korea appears to have sent more troops to support Russia in its war, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, but the agency has not yet determined exactly how many extra soldiers have been deployed.

The additional troops appear to have been deployed to the fronts in Russia’s Kursk region in the first week of February, after North Korean troops reportedly withdrew from the area at the end of January, the National Intelligence Service said in a brief statement to South Korean media.

Earlier on Thursday, South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo had reported that 1,000 to 3,000 additional North Korean troops had been deployed. The NIS press office did not answer its phone line for comment on Thursday afternoon.

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