(29 Oct 2024)
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Seoul, South Korea – 29 October 2024
1. Wide of members of South Korean parliamentary intelligence committee briefing on the reports by the National Intelligence Service
2. Journalists at briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Seong-kweun, lawmaker of the People’s Power Party:
"Though this has already been reported in the media, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui was visiting Russia yesterday, October 28, and the National Intelligence Service is prioritizing efforts to figure out the details of follow-up high-level discussions (between North Korea and Russia) regarding additional dispatch of troops and what the North would get in return."
4. Wide of Lee speaking
5. Wide of journalists at briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Seong-kweun, lawmaker of the People’s Power Party:
"It is believed that troop transfers between North Korea and Russia are underway, and they are currently verifying the possibility of some personnel, including high-ranking officials and military generals, moving to the frontline areas."
7. Wide of Lee speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Seong-kweun, lawmaker of the People’s Power Party:
"(Russian military) is training North Korean troops on over 100 Russian military terms (terminologies), but they are finding it difficult. So we are speculating that communication issues may not be easily resolved."
9. Various of Lee
10. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
South Korea’s spy agency said North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, who is visiting Russia, may be involved in high-level discussions on sending additional troops to Russia and negotiating what his country would get in return.
Lee Seong-kweun, a lawmaker for People’s Power Party, said in a briefing Tuesday that the National Intelligence Service also told lawmakers it’s examining the possibility that some groups of North Korea’s military personnel in Russia, including generals or other high-ranking officials, may have already moved to frontline areas.
The spy agency also said the two sides appear to be struggling to resolve communication issues although the Russian military is training North Korean troops on Russian military terminology, Lee said.
North Korea’s top diplomat is visiting Russia in another sign of their deepening relations.
The announcement of Choe’s visit came hours after the Pentagon said North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia, who are expected to arrive in battlefields in Ukraine within "the next several weeks.”
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