While US president Donald Trump calls him “intelligent” and opens to the dialogue by announcing that he will call him, North Korea leader Kim Jong-U ‘celebrates’ the first launch of a missile from the Tycoon settlement. In fact, Pyongyang tested a strategic cruise missile, “hitting the target with precision”. This was announced by the KCNA State Agency. “The means of deterrence of the armed forces of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea are perfecting themselves more and more,” said the North Korean leader, who witnessed the tests.
Two days ago, in his interview with Fox News, President Trump also touched the North Korean theme, with a particular focus on the supreme leader Kim Jong-un. “I found myself well with him – said Trump -. It’s not a religious fanatic. It is necessary that he is an intelligent person”, the words of the Tycoon.
Trump, who was the first American president to set foot in North Korea, met Kim three times during his first term, of which the last in 2019 in the demilitarized area on the border with South Korea. ” “, The magnate said in the interview, opening the door to new developments on the Korean front.
From the North Korea new reinforcements to Russia in Kursk
In a diverse picture, at least apparent, between the USA and Russia – with Trump intends to dialogue with Vladimir Putin to end the war and who recently ‘wanded’ Volodymyr Zelensky – North Korea seems to be determined to send new reinforcements to the military Russians committed to fighting against Ukrainian troops in the Kursk border region. The head of the Ukrainian military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov, who said it during an interview with The War Zone magazine, is sure of this.
Even the New York Times, citing an American official on condition of anonymity, wrote in recent days that new Pyongyang troops could arrive within two months. According to Budanov, Pyongyang will send artillery units, weapons and another 150 short -range ballistic missiles that the Russians will be able to use against Ukrainians. Last year North Korea had delivered 148 short -range missiles to the Russian army, according to sources of Kiev and Seoul.
Budanov also believes that Pyongyang will give Moscow other Koksan semi -carnons and multiple launching systems of rockets, remembering that North Korea has provided Russia 120 pieces of each of these systems in the last three months. In addition, the North Korean soldiers are expected to train their Russian colleagues on the systems supplied, he said. A contingent of 12 thousand North Korean soldiers joined the Russian military to counter the Ukrainian army in the Kursk and Kiev Oblast estimates that so far has recorded 4 thousand losses.
And Pyongyang would even be accelerating preparations in view of a new deployment of troops in Russia, at least according to a report developed by the major states of South Korea, cited by the Yonhap news agency.
Seoul and Washington accused Pyongyang of having sent about 11 thousand soldiers to fight alongside the Russian military in the war against Ukraine. South Korean intelligence also speaks of 300 deaths between the North Korean military and 2700 injured. “About four months after the deployment of troops it is assumed that North Korea is accelerating preparations for further measures and for the deployment following the multiple victims and prisoners,” said the General Staff meeting in the report published in recent days.
The report also remembered that North Korea seemed ready to provocations with short -range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or balls for the transport of waste at any time. “Since they have conducted surprise provocations according to their needs, the army will not exclude the possibility of these provocations and strengthen surveillance”. Today, therefore, the new launch. The first in the new era Trump.