NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte speaks throughout a joint press convention with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal on the Stenbock Home in Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 22. AP-Yonhap
The North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) was set to obtain a briefing from senior South Korean officers on Monday concerning North Korean troops in Russia, in line with NATO’s web site, with all indicators suggesting that the North’s troops could quickly be prepared for battlefield deployment towards Ukraine forces.
A South Korean delegation visiting Brussels will temporary the NATO council on the North’s troop deployment, and the ambassadors from NATO’s Indo Pacific companions — Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea — may even be a part of the briefing, NATO mentioned in a discover on its web site.
NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte will ship an announcement to media after the briefing, it mentioned.
The South Korean delegation, comprising high-level intelligence, protection and international officers, is visiting the NATO headquarters this week for the uncommon briefing after South Korea and the US confirmed the North’s dispatch of some 3,000 troops to japanese Russia for doable deployment to the battle in Ukraine.
Ukraine has claimed the troops have begun to maneuver to the Kursk border area in western Russia, the place the Ukrainian forces launched an incursion in August.
The delegation, led by First Deputy Director of the Nationwide Intelligence Service Hong Jang-won, was anticipated to share with NATO its assessments concerning the North’s troop deployment and their actions.
They may probably talk about assist measures for Ukraine, together with sending a staff of South Korean intelligence and different officers to Kyiv to observe North Korean troops.
Discussions can also contact on South Korea’s choices for its help to Ukraine, with a doable consideration of shifting its support coverage to weapons provision, versus Seoul’s present place of sustaining nonlethal support. (Yonhap)
