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South Korea says Russia sent North Korea missiles in exchange for troops

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a welcoming ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang earlier this year [File: Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik via AFP]

Russia has provided North Korea with anti-air missiles and air defence equipment in return for sending soldiers to support its war against Ukraine, according to a top South Korean official.

Asked what the North stood to gain from dispatching an estimated 10,000 troops to Russia, South Korea’s national security adviser Shin Won-sik said Moscow had given Pyongyang economic and military technology support.

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