North Korea on Monday dismissed as "groundless rumors" the accusations from South Korea and Ukraine that it is sending soldiers to fight alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine, arguing that its relations with Moscow are "legitimate and cooperative." It was the first public comment from a North Korean official since South Korea's spy agency last week said the North had decided to send around 12,000 troops to fight Russia's war in Ukraine, and it had already dispatche ?
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Russia said on Monday it will continue its cooperation with North Korea but declined to comment on allegations that it plans to use North Korean soldiers in military operations against Ukraine. "There is a lot of contradictory information," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters when questioned about the alleged dispatch of North Korean troops and a possible plan to use them, according to the Russian news agency TASS. He added such questions should be directed to the defense ?
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