# North Korea likely to send more specialised troops to Russia: analyst

https://mins.news/en/video/30324

- CNA, 2026-08-24 08:35 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqrJkZzVJ8

> Grant Newsham, a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, says South Korean reports that North Korea is continuing preparations to send troops to Russia are credible. Future deployments could include drone operators, missile troops and engineers. He says closer military cooperation with Moscow and battlefield experience in Ukraine are making Pyongyang a more formidable threat, no longer the “laughing…”

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