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Finland’s president says that North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia represents an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war that goes against China’s own stated position on the conflict

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently accused North Korea of plans to send 10,000 soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine. South Korean intelligence later gave credence to Zelenskyy’s assertion, as the country’s legislators noted that North Korea has already dispatched 3,000 soldiers to Russia.

The US says it will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of its weapons if North Korea joins Russia’s war.

Moscow said Tuesday it had seized the war-battered mining town of Selydove in eastern Ukraine where Kyiv's forces are buckling and as concern grows in Kyiv and abroad over North Korea's expanding military ties with Russia.

Seoul has long accused the nuclear-armed North of sending weapons to help Moscow fight Kyiv, and after Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defence deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, Pyongyang is alleged to have moved to deploy soldiers en masse.

Recent Russian attacks in Ukraine cause casualties, North Korea supports, Zelenskyy to address threat with Nordic leaders.

Reports suggest North Korean soldiers may join Russia's war in Ukraine, facing challenges and causing unrest in North Korea.

Nato officially confirms presense of North Korean troops who could join Russia’s war in weeks