Zelenskyy: Russia’s North Korean troops should spark stronger Western response – POLITICO

Ukraine’s allies in the West did not have a “strong enough” reaction to North Korean soldiers actively joining Russia’s side in the war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.

The Pentagon warned Monday that North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia for training, with some already moving toward the front line near the Ukrainian border to help the Kremlin’s military battle Kyiv’s forces. NATO also confirmed Monday that Pyongyang's soldiers have been deployed to Kursk, the Russian region that is partly controlled by Ukraine.

“The voice of the United States, the voice of NATO, the voice of Western partners, the voice of Global South and China, is not so loud as it has to be now about North Korean contingent on the territory of Russia,” Zelenskyy told reporters Wednesday at the Nordic Council summit in Reykjavík. “I think it’s very dangerous. It’s opened a new page in this war.