North Korea has not sent forces to Russia to help Moscow in the Ukraine war, claims one of the dictatorship's UN representatives.
Claims from South Korea – whose intelligence agency Nis has flagged that North Korea has decided to send 12,000 soldiers, including special forces – are according to the representative "groundless rumors".
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, on the other hand, has said that there is clear evidence that North Korea has sent soldiers to Russia, and points to satellite images and video clips that allegedly show how 1,500 North Korean soldiers have already been sent to Russian Vladivostok.
Pyongyang and Moscow have been allies since North Korea was founded after World War II, and have come even closer to each other after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
North Korea has previously delivered large quantities of weapons to Russia.
