Pentagon Says North Korean Troops Heading to Russia’s Embattled Kursk Region

North Korean forces have been dispatched to Russia’s embattled Kursk region, according to the latest public U.S. military assessments. Thus far, the U.S. military assesses that there are around 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia. Speaking at an Oct. 29 press briefing, Pentagon press secretary and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said a portion of these North Korean forces “have already moved closer to Ukraine, towards Russia’s Kursk Oblast, near the border with Ukraine.” Ryder said the North Korean contingent heading to Kursk consists of “a couple thousand” troops, with an unspecified “smaller number” already present in the Russian region....