North Korea has confirmed for the first time that it has dispatched troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine.

After Russia claimed to have retaken the Kursk region from Ukraine, North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it had sent soldiers to fight in Moscow’s war.

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