Western officers mentioned they have been conscious of the reviews however have been treating them with warning at this stage.
“We’re monitoring the attainable deployment of North Korean troops to Russia,” one official advised reporters.
“North Korea has for fairly a while now supplied vital artillery munitions to Russia to help the conflict. And it is a new physique of reporting that we’re monitoring.”
The official mentioned the reviews involved between 2,000 and 12,000 North Koreans however that – if verified – “it is most likely in the direction of the decrease quantity”.
“When it comes to the veracity, it’s a little bit too early to inform, to get some floor reality behind really what is going on right here,” the official mentioned.