The meeting between Choe Son Hui and her Russian counterpart in Moscow comes amid reports North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia.
North Korea will back Russia until it achieves victory in the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said on Friday at talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“And we also assure that until the day of victory, we will firmly stand alongside our Russian comrades,” she said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that 8000 of the troops were in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops broke across the border into Russia in August, and that he expected them to go into combat against Ukraine in the coming days.
Moscow, which sent its army into Ukraine in February 2022, has neither denied nor directly confirmed the presence of North Korean troops on Russian soil. Putin has said it is for Russia to decide how to implement the treaty with Kim. Meanwhile, when asked on Friday whether Seoul could send weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea aiding Russia, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said all possible scenarios were under consideration.
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