North Korea Admits Sending Troops to Aid Russian War on Kyiv
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North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine, claiming the country’s military had helped Moscow retake control of the border region of Kursk.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un decided to participate in the conflict to liberate the Kursk region and to repel the “adventurous invasion” of Russia by the Ukrainian army in an operation that has been “victoriously concluded,” the official Korean Central News Agency said Monday, citing North Korea’s Central Military Commission.