North Korea plans to send additional troops to Russia over the next two months.
This was reported by The New York Times with reference to a senior American official.
The publication notes that, according to Ukrainian soldiers and American officials, the North Korean troops sent to Russia are actually operating as a separate fighting force – different in language, training and military culture.
“These are partly two different armies that have never trained or operated together, and partly, I think, Russian military culture, which, let’s say, does not really respect the capabilities, norms and operations of partner forces,” noted Celeste Wallander, who at the inauguration Donald Trump was the Pentagon’s assistant secretary for international security.
North Korean troops are mostly special operations forces trained to carry out “surgical” strike missions, but the Russians have largely used them as infantry, she said.
Last fall, North Korea sent about 11 thousand soldiers to help Moscow troops in the Kursk region. Since the first fighting in early December, about a third of North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded, Ukrainian and American officials said.
Source: The New York Times
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