Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has criticised his partners for taking a “zero” response to Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops for the conflict in Ukraine, saying that a lacklustre response will incite Vladimir Putin of Russia to send more North Korean troops.
Zelenskiy thinks Moscow is already attempting to reach an agreement for North Korea to send a big number of civilians and engineering troops to work at Russian military facilities. Western allies have not declared retaliatory actions or stated they are planning to do any, even though they have called the action a significant escalation.
South Korea is thinking of deploying a team of military monitors to Ukraine and has offered intelligence support and broader collaboration on the issue. Three North Korean generals who were travelling with hundreds of Korean People’s Army soldiers to Russia to support Moscow’s conflict in Ukraine were named by Ukraine’s delegation.
North Korea first denied its role in the conflict but has later defended the deployment of troops as being compliant with international law. Russia has not denied that North Korean forces are involved in the conflict. According to intelligence Washington has received, there are 8,000 North Korean forces “right now” in Russia’s southern Kursk area, which borders northeastern Ukraine, U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told the Security Council.
