N. Korea’s Foreign Ministry on tro deployment to Russia: if true, it aligns with international law

This statement comes from Kim Jong Gyu, North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister for Russian Affairs, and was published by North Korea’s state news agency KCNA, as reported by Ukrinform.

“I heeded the rumor of the dispatch of KPA tros to Russia, which the world media is building up public inion,” Kim stated.

He did not confirm any tro deployment to Russia, noting that foreign ministry does not engage in the matters of the Ministry of National Defense.

“If there is such a thing that the world media is talking about, I think it will be an act conforming with the regulations of international law,” the North Korean diplomat saidl.

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This is Pyongyang’s first official comment on reports about North Korean tros being sent to Russia. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin refrained from denying such information, saying it was a matter between Russia and North Korea.

NATO, meanwhile, is reportedly considering two possible responses to North Korean tro invvement in Russia, according to Bloomberg.

As Ukrinform previously reported, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence stated that the first North Korean military units trained at Russia’s eastern training grounds have already arrived in the combat zone of the Russia-Ukraine war.