미 국방부(펜타곤)과 우크라이나 정보국 발표: 첫 북한군 사상자 발생. 러시아 원조 중인 북한군 러시아 영토 크루스크에서 30여명 사상자 발생.
1) 현재 북한군 숫자는 1만에서 1만 2천명으로 추산.
우크라이나가 지난 8월 이후, 러시아 영토 ‘쿠르스크’ 점령 중. 2차 세계대전 당시 독일의 러시아영토 침략 이후, 최초로 러시아 영토가 타국에 의해 점령당함. 푸틴이 이를 수치로 여겨, 북한 원조군을 끌어들임.
(1) 러시아 푸틴 이해관계 - 북한군의 보병 필요
(2) 북한 김정은이 바라는 바 - 러시아 군사 기술 이전, 국제경제 제재로 인한 손실을 만회하기 위함. 에너지 및 외화 수입
2) 북한군 사망자 발생에 대해 러시아 대변인 드미트리 페스코프 (Dmitry Peskov) 아직 논평 하지 않음.
3) 우크라이나 측, 북한군에 대한 평가
- 북한의 러시아 원조군 참전은 충격적인 뉴스임
- 언어 장벽 때문에 러시아군과 북한군의 공조가 쉽지 않다.
- 북한군에 대한 평가 – 전투경험 부족, 훈련수준 낮음, 군인 영양상태 부실
4) 도네츠크 전투 현황
쿠르스크 지역을 제외하고, 2024년 내내 러시아가 우크라이나 동부 도네츠크 지역으로 조금씩 쳐들어감. (러시아의 패배도 많음)
5) 러시아 국방장관 안드레이 벨루소프 (Andrei Belousov) - 러시아가 매일 30 제곱 킬로미터 영토를 넓혀가는 중이라고 발표.
First reported deaths of North Korean soldiers fighting against Ukraine
Pyongyang has sent up to 12,000 troops to help support Russia’s invasion of its neighbour
www.theguardian.com
2024년 10월 28일 뉴스. 북한군 러시아 참전에 대한 유럽연합 비판.
North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to likely fight against Ukraine, Pentagon says
By LORNE COOK and TARA COPP
Updated 10:07 PM GMT-5, October 28, 2024
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BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will intensify the almost three-year war and jolt relations in the Indo-Pacific region.
Some of the North Korean soldiers have already moved closer to Ukraine, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said, and were believed to be heading for the Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion.
Earlier Monday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte NATO confirmed recent Ukrainian intelligence reports that some North Korean military units were already in the Kursk region.
Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine’s weary and overstretched army. It will also stoke geopolitical tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the wider Indo-Pacific region, including Japan and Australia, Western officials say.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to reshape global power dynamics. He sought to build a counterbalance to Western influence with a summit of BRICS countries, including the leaders of China and India, in Russia last week. He has sought direct help for the war from Iran, which has supplied drones, and North Korea, which has shipped large amounts of ammunition, according to Western governments.
Rutte told reporters in Brussels that the North Korean deployment represents “a significant escalation” in Pyongyang’s involvement in the conflict and “a dangerous expansion of Russia’s war.”
U.S. President Joe Biden also called the deployment “dangerous. Very dangerous.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with their South Korean counterparts later this week in Washington.
Singh said Austin and Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun will discuss the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine. There will be no limitations on the use of U.S.-provided weapons on those forces, Singh said.
“If we see DPRK troops moving in towards the front lines, they are co-belligerents in the war,” Singh said, using the acronym for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. “This is a calculation that North Korea has to make.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shrugged off Rutte’s comments and noted that Pyongyang and Moscow signed a joint security pact last June. He stopped short of confirming North Korean soldiers were in Russia.
Lavrov claimed that Western military instructors long have been covertly deployed to Ukraine to help its military use long-range weapons provided by Western partners.
Ukraine, whose defenses are under severe Russian pressure in its eastern Donetsk region, could get more bleak news from next week’s U.S. presidential election. A Donald Trump victory could see key U.S. military help dwindle.
In Moscow, the Defense Ministry announced Monday that Russian troops have captured the Donetsk village of Tsukuryne — the latest settlement to succumb to the slow-moving Russian onslaught.
Rutte spoke in Brussels after a high-level South Korean delegation, including top intelligence and military officials as well as senior diplomats, briefed the alliance’s 32 national ambassadors at NATO headquarters.
Rutte said NATO is “actively consulting within the alliance, with Ukraine, and with our Indo-Pacific partners,” on developments. He said he was due to talk soon with South Korea’s president and Ukraine’s defense minister.
“We continue to monitor the situation closely,” he said. He did not take questions after the statement.
The South Koreans showed no evidence of North Korean troops in Kursk, according to European officials who were present for the 90-minute exchange and spoke to The Associated Press about the security briefing on condition of anonymity.
It’s unclear how or when NATO allies might respond to the North Korean involvement. They could, for example, lift restrictions that prevent Ukraine from using Western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes on Russian soil.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, citing intelligence reports, claimed last Friday that North Korean troops would be on the battlefield within days.
He previously said his government had information that some 10,000 troops from North Korea were being readied to join Russian forces fighting against his country.
Days before Zelenskyy spoke, American and South Korean officials said there was evidence North Korea had dispatched troops to Russia.
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Copp reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-north-korea-nato-ukraine-war-9b7357344d988ea32d8ca21f6e22dcc5#
North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to likely fight against Ukraine, Pentagon says
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh says North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine within “the next several weeks.”
apnews.com
나토 사무총장.마크 루테 (Mark Rutte) 발표.
1) 유럽연합은 북한군의 러시아군 원조를 비판한다.
2) 유럽연합은 우크라이나와 끝까지 연대하겠다.
