NATO Chief Confirms North Korean Troops in Russia's Kursk Region

The NATO military alliance has confirmed that North Korean troops have moved to Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. Speaking in Brussels on October 28, NATO chief Mark Rutte called the move a "significant escalation" in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and said it shows Russian President Vladimir Putin's "desperation" after "more than 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded" in the war. Rutte’s comments follow weeks of reports suggesting that North Korea was sending troops to Russia in a further sign of increasingly…