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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Tom Watling

South Korea vows response to North Korea bolstering Putin’s forces: ‘We won’t sit idle’

In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian soldier aims from a bunker in the Russian - Ukrainian border area in the Kursk region, Russia - (AP)

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has vowed he “won’t sit idle” over reports from his country’s spy agency and the US that North Korea has sent thousands of troops to Russia to bolster Vladimir Putin’s forces.

Speaking in Seoul after talks with visiting Polish president Andrzej Duda, Mr Yoon described the North Korean deployment as “a provocation that threatens global security beyond the Korean Peninsula and Europe”.

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