South Korea considering sending observers to Ukraine over DPRK military participation

The leadership of South Korea is considering the possibility of sending a group of observers to Ukraine due to the transfer of soldiers from the DPRK to Russia.

Source: Reuters, citing an unnamed representative of Yoon Suk-yeol, President of South Korea

Details: According to an unnamed representative of the president, the consent of the National Assembly is not required to send observers if this is done for a specific purpose and for a limited time.

The representative also told reporters that the military from the DPRK "had not yet fully engaged in combat against Ukrainian forces."

Background:

• Ukrainian intelligence sources told the Financial Times that the first military clash between Ukrainian soldiers and North Korean troops took place in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
• Earlier, the Pentagon confirmed that North Korean troops who had arrived in Russia for training had begun to move towards Kursk Oblast, with some of them already present there. According to the latest US estimate, North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia for training and combat operations against Ukraine.
• CNN sources believe that some of the North Korean military may already be in Ukraine.
• Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has reported that in the last week of October, Russia deployed more than 7,000 North Korean army soldiers to areas near Ukraine.
• Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov confirmed that the first small-scale clash with North Korean troops took place on the Kursk front.

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