A new video released by the Ukrainian government's Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security appears to show North Korean soldiers at a Russian military base. The center said the footage shows North Korean troops being outfitted in Russian gear at Russia's Sergievsky training ground in preparation for deployment to Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a NATO press conference on Thursday that Ukraine had information that North Korea was preparing to send 10,000 troops to occupied areas of Ukraine. 'We've got information that North Korea sent tactical personnel and officers to Ukraine on temporary occupied territories, and they are preparing on their land, 10,000 soldiers, but they didn't move them already to Ukraine or to Russia,' he said.
Business Insider was unable to independently verify the footage. It comes after South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Friday that thousands of North Korean troops were set to join Russian forces in Ukraine. The NIS said that North Korean soldiers were being transported from the North on Russian navy ships and that around 1,500 North Korean special forces troops were already in Russia.
Speaking in Brussels on Friday, NATO chief Mark Rutte said: 'Our official position is that we cannot confirm reports that North Koreans are actively now as soldiers engaged in the war effort.'
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