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North Korea may send 100,000 troops to Russia as Kim tells military to ‘pull out all the stops’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the country’s military to improve its war-fighting capabilities, state media KCNA said on Monday, amid suggestions that Pyongyang could send as many as 100,000 troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Kim delivered the speech at a conference of battalion commanders and political instructors held in Pyongyang on Friday, where he called for building political and military strength and combat efficiency to ensure the armed forces can cope with a war.
Threats from the United States and its allies, including South Koreaand their military confrontation with North Korea have brought tensions to “the worst stage in history,” he said, calling the Korean Peninsula “the largest hotspot in the world.”
“He fervently called on all participants to make every effort to achieve substantial and fundamental improvements in enhancing their capabilities for fighting an actual war,” KCNA said.
The report came amid international criticism of the rapidly developing military cooperation between the two countries North Korea And Russia.
Washington, Seoul and Kiev have said there are more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia to support the war against Ukraine, and some of them are involved in fighting in Kursk, near the border with Ukraine.