Secretary of Defense Young "North Korean combat forces are highly likely to move to Russia"

British Defense Secretary John Healy said it is very likely that North Korea has started sending troops to help Russia.

"It is very likely that the current movement of hundreds of combat troops from North Korea to Russia has begun," Healy told the House of Commons on the 22nd local time.

"It is shocking that North Korean soldiers support Russia's war of aggression against European soil," Healy said.

British media pointed out that Minister Healy's remarks were even more likely this time, as British cabinet officials have only said that "such a move has been reported" regarding North Korea's dispatch to Russia.

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol and British Foreign Minister David Lammy said in a joint statement issued after the 9th South Korean-British Foreign Minister's Strategic Dialogue in Seoul on the 21st, "We condemn in the strongest language North Korea's illegal transfer of weapons and the deployment of troops to support Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine."