Kim Jong Un says he’ll ‘unconditionally support’ Russia’s war amid a report he’s sending 30,000 more troops against Ukraine

• Kim Jong Un promises “unconditional support” what Russia does to fight Ukraine.

• This comes after a report that he wants to send 30,000 soldiers to Ukraine from the beginning of July.

• Meanwhile, North Korea is estimated to provide 12 million artillery tour to Russia by Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday, Russia is in the war against Ukraine, he said.

The Pyongyang Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that Kim met with the Russian Foreign Minister. Sergey Lavrov, He promised “strengthening strategic and tactical cooperation” among the two leaders’ countries.

Kim said that “Russian leadership is willing to support all the measures taken in relation to the basic solution of the Ukrainian situation”.

He said that CNN refers to an Ukrainian intelligence assessment and an anonymous Western official on July 2, and that North Korea is planning to send 25,000 to 30,000 troops to Russia.

Such a new slice of warrior, the triple North Korea’s more than the infantry presence in the war, more than the first party 11,000 soldiers fighting for Russia in Kursk. Western estimates 6,000 of them North Korean troops He was killed or injured.

However, in a statement on Sunday, the Japanese Times, the Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (GUR), said that Pyongyang has no “any information” about its plans to increase the number of units in Russia to 30,000.

Gur’s press team did not respond to the request for comments sent by Business Insider outside of regular working hours.

A more likely expansion 6,000 extra staff Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said North Korea promised Kursk.

In June, Shoigu said that at least 1,000 of these people would be sapper, and 5,000 will help construction.

Meanwhile, the best Russian authorities are often traveling to meet with who. According to the Russian media, Shoigu visited Kim at least three times in the early summer.

The partnership between the two increasingly isolated countries was worried about both South Korea and the West. Seoul’s intelligence branch said on Sunday that Pyongyang believes that Russia already supplies some amount. 12 million 152mm artillery bulletIt can fill the shipping container of about 28,000.

Compared, the United States said that it has sent approximately 3 million 155mm bullets to Ukraine in March since the beginning of the war in 2022.

Units, ammunition and weapons in exchange for Kim’s government reportedly received food. in advance– Battlefield experience, and technological help for space and weapons programs.

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