Zelensky "Putting Many North Korean Forces into the Frontline"...Discussion on "Peacekeeping Forces" begins in earnest.

[Anchor]
It seems that North Korean troops sent to Kursk in western Russia have begun to be deployed to the front line on a large scale.

Amid the intensifying battle on the front lines, discussions over the idea of an end to the war proposed by U.S. President-elect Trump are also in full swing.

I'm a YouTube reporter on the report.

[Reporter]
President Zelenskyy said in a regular address that a large number of North Korean troops had been mobilized for fighting on the Kursk front.

[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: There is preliminary information that Russia has begun to put a significant number of North Korean soldiers on the attack]

It is explained that it is being put to the front line in earnest beyond small-scale sporadic fighting.

A day earlier, multiple Russian military bloggers reported specific combat situations.

The North Korean military claimed to have killed 300 Ukrainian soldiers and recaptured a Russian village.

Some even claimed that it took less than two hours to advance 2km through the minefield.

It is difficult to confirm the authenticity of these claims.

However, analysts say that it is a card aimed at negotiating the end of the war, given that the Russian government first mentioned the involvement in the battle at a time when it does not officially recognize the dispatch of North Korean troops.

[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: If (the full-scale deployment of North Korean troops) is not an escalation of war, what is the escalation of war that many people talk about?]

Meanwhile, NATO and European Union leaders are expected to gather on the 18th to discuss the issue of peacekeepers in Ukraine.

Earlier, at a trilateral meeting in Paris, Trump proposed the idea of European troops stationed in Ukraine after the end of the war and monitoring the ceasefire.

Russia also did not oppose this idea.

[Russian Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: Everything can and should be discussed in ceasefire negotiations.]

However, if we go into the discussion, it is expected that the country of dispatch, the size of the troops, and the role of the United States will suffer for a considerable period of time.

It's YTN YouTube.