North Korean troops are in occupied Ukraine, according to Western intelligence services.

Reports until this point suggested that the Kremlin would only deploy North Korean troops in the Kursk Oblast, Russia, to fend off the Ukrainian forces there.

The fact that some of the approximately 10,000 North Koreans are operating within occupied Ukrainian territory threatens the conflict with further escalation.

Earlier in October, South Korean and Western intelligence services declassified intelligence, showing that the Kremlin had recruited several thousand North Korean troops to fight on its behalf in the conflict in Ukraine.

Moscow shares a close relationship with Pyongyang, which only became stronger with the war in Ukraine. During the approximately 1,000 days of the conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin has had to repeatedly ask his North Korean counterpart for military........

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