North Korea may ultimately send 100,000 troops to support Russia — Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
North Korea could send as many as 100,000 troops to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with assessments made by some G20 countries.
The sources stressed that this estimate is preliminary and that if Pyongyang does deploy that many troops to Russia, they would not all be sent at once but would be rotated in and out in batches over time.
Bloomberg noted that Ukraine’s ambassador to South Korea gave a similar estimate earlier this month. He told Voice of America that Kyiv expected up to 15,000 North Korean troops to be stationed at a time in Russia’s Kursk region and possibly in occupied parts of Eastern Ukraine, rotating every few months.
