North Korean troops deployed on the side of Russia are likely to enter the fight against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region "in the coming days," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
"We now assess that there are some 10,000 North Korean soldiers in total in Russia. And the most recent information indicates that as many as 8,000 of those North Korean forces have been deployed to the Kursk region," Blinken said in a press conference late Thursday. "We’ve not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days."
