Putin meets N Korea foreign minister as Kyiv warns of troop deployment
Al Jazeera
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 11,000 North Korean troops are in Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui at the Kremlin, as Ukraine warned North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk region could be sent into combat.
In a video released by the Kremlin of Putin greeting Choe on Monday, the Russian leader told the official that she had visited on Russia’s National Unity Day, a public holiday.
Choe expressed “sincere, warm, comradely greetings” from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday that as many as 10,000 North Korean soldiers were in Russia’s Kursk region and preparing to join Moscow’s fight against Ukraine in the coming days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that according to Ukrainian intelligence, 11,000 North Korean troops had reached the Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops started a sudden incursion in August.
