{"id":3282,"date":"2024-10-23T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2024-10-24T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:59:21","slug":"north-korean-troops-would-be-legitimate-target-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/north-korean-troops-would-be-legitimate-target-us\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean troops would be \u2018legitimate target\u2019 \u2013 US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington believes that 3,000 North Korean soldiers have traveled to Russia for training, spokesman John Kirby has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

If North Korean soldiers enter the Ukraine conflict on Russia\u2019s side, they will become \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d<\/em> for Kiev\u2019s forces, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has declared.<\/p>\n

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed on Wednesday that there are currently an unknown number of North Korean servicemen in Russia, and that the Pentagon does not know \u201cwhat exactly they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/em> Austin added that it would be a \u201cvery serious issue\u201d<\/em> if North Korea intended \u201cto participate in this war on Russia\u2019s behalf.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a briefing later on Wednesday afternoon, Kirby told reporters that \u201cat least 3,000\u201d<\/em> North Korean soldiers entered eastern Russia earlier this month, and have since been dispatched to \u201cmultiple Russian training sites.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kirby said that the US does not know what kind of training these soldiers have supposedly received. However, he speculated that they \u201ccould travel to western Russia and then engage in combat against the Ukrainian military.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf these North Korean soldiers decide to join the fight against Ukraine, they will become legitimate military targets,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang has dismissed claims that it sent troops to Russia as \u201cgroundless and stereotype rumors.\u201d<\/em> Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that cooperation between Russia and North Korea is \u201cour sovereign right,\u201d<\/em> but that Moscow has seen \u201ca lot of contradictory information\u201d<\/em> on the matter.<\/p>\n

Rumors of the DPRK\u2019s involvement in the conflict began earlier this month, when Ukrainian media outlets reported the deaths of North Korean troops in Donetsk Region. However, no evidence was given to back up these reports.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claimed two weeks later that North Korean \u201cofficers and technical staff\u201d<\/em> had been spotted near the front line, and that Pyongyang was planning to send 10,000 soldiers to take part in the conflict.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s spy agency, the NIS, claimed last week that North Korea had sent 1,500 troops to Russia for training. These soldiers \u201care expected to be deployed to the front lines once their adaptation training is completed,\u201d<\/em> the agency added.<\/p>\n

Russia and North Korea signed a landmark Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in June, during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang. The agreement includes a pledge by Russia and North Korea to assist each other if either is \u201cput in a state of war by an armed invasion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington believes that 3,000 North Korean soldiers have traveled to Russia for training, spokesman John Kirby has said If North Korean soldiers enter the Ukraine conflict on Russia\u2019s side, they will become \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d for Kiev\u2019s forces, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has declared. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}