U.S. Secretary of State Visits NATO "North Korean troops are currently fighting..."Respond firmly"

U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken has warned that he will sternly respond to North Korean troops' participation in the fighting.

"North Korean troops have been put into battle and are literally in battle right now," Blinken told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, adding, "This calls for a decisive response and will do so."

"We are increasingly confirming that the security of the Atlantic Ocean, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East cannot be separated from each other," Blinken said.

"We can confirm that more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to Kursk province and started engaging in combat operations with Russian forces," Vedant Patel, a deputy U.S. State Department spokesman, said earlier in a briefing.

Blinken said he would commit to supporting Ukraine until President Biden finished his term, stressing that "we will continue to strengthen everything we do at the moment."