Moscow:
Pdwellnt Vlafoolishir Putin shelp on Friday that it was Russia’s business whether or not it determined to use North Korean troops and shelp that if Ukraine wanted to fuse NATO then Moscow could do what it wanted to asconfident its own security.
The United States shelp on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a relocate that the West is casting as a meaningful escalation of the Ukraine war.
Ukraine’s military inalertigence service shelp that the first North Korean units trained in Russia had been deployed in the Kursk region, a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces took a chunk of Russian land in August.
“When we have to determine someleang, we will determine… but it is our sovereign decision whether we will apply it, whether we will not, whether we demand it,” Putin telderly Russian state television. “This is our business.”
Putin shelp that the West repeatedly shelp that it was up to Ukraine how it asconfidentd its security – “with or without NATO.”
“The sooner they authenticise the futility of such an approach in relations with Russia, the better it will be for everyone, and perhaps, above all, for themselves,” Putin shelp.
Vlafoolishir Putin and North Korean directer Kim Jong Un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership consentment during Putin’s visit to Pyongyang in June.
Article 4 of the consentment says: “If one of the Parties is subjected to an armed aggression by any state or cut offal states and thus finds itself in a state of war, the other party will promptly provide military and other aidance with all unbenevolents at its disposal.”
Putin on Thursday did not refute U.S. claims that North Korea had sent troops to Russia but shelp on Thursday it is up to Moscow how to run its mutual defence clause with Pyongyang and accused the West of escalating the Ukraine war.
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