Pyongyang has sent one of the top officials of the Korean people's Army (KNA) to Russia, but the specific purpose of this business trip remains unknown.
Reports UNN with reference to The Wall Street Journal.
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Colonel - General Kim Yong Bok, deputy chief of the General Staff of the KNA, and in fact one of the key persons within the DPRK army sent to the Russian Federation, is probably among 500 middle-and senior-level officers. his mission in Russia is not exactly known.
The WSJ notes that this Kim Yong Bok is not very well known in North Korea. Seoul's intelligence database contains little information about more than 680 top North Korean officials. There is information that Kim Yong Bok previously commanded a special forces corps numbering several hundred thousand people, the media write.
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North Korea has supplied Russia with 170-mm self-propelled guns and 240-mm multiple launch rocket systems.About 11,000 North Korean soldiers have arrived in the Kursk region and are already taking part in the fighting.