The foreign minister of North Korea is leaving for Russia, where troops are being sent

Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s foreign minister, is on her way to Moscow, according to Russian officials and state media KCNA on Tuesday. This is her second trip to Russia in six weeks, as worries about Pyongyang’s role in Moscow’s war in Ukraine grow.

KCNA said that Choe was in charge of a group that went on Monday for an official trip to Russia, but they did not say more.

The Russian mission said in a statement on its Vkontakte page that Alexander Matsegora, who is the ambassador to Pyongyang, greeted Choe at the airport.

“The visit of the head of the DPRK Foreign Ministry to the Russian Federation is taking place within the framework of a strategic dialogue – following an agreement to enhance ties reached by the leaders of our countries during the June 2024 summit,” it said.

The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK.

NATO, along with Seoul, Washington, and Kyiv, confirmed that Pyongyang had sent troops to Russia. They said that North Korean military units had been sent to Russia’s Kursk area, which is near the border with Ukraine.

Washington will not put new limits on Kyiv’s use of American weapons if North Korea joins Moscow’s war against Kyiv, the Pentagon said on Monday. It also said that North Korea sent 10,000 troops to train in eastern Russia, which is more than the 3,000 troops it thought it had sent on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden of the United States said it was “very dangerous.”
Yesterday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met with a group from South Korea. He said that the growing military ties between Moscow and Pyongyang were a threat to security in both the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic regions.

In a phone call with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said that North Korean troops may be sent to the front lines of the war in Ukraine sooner than most people thought.

Since Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, and Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, met in the far east of Russia last year, military ties between the two countries have grown. In June, they got together again to sign a broad strategic agreement that includes a pact to protect each other.