North Korean Troops Would ‘Almost Certainly Have Issues’ in Ukraine: UK [Video]

Russian and North Korean troops jointly fighting in Ukraine would very likely have problems working together along the front lines, the British government said on Sunday.

“Russian and DPRK forces would almost certainly experience interoperability difficulties having not previously carried out joint military exercises,” the U.K. Defense Ministry said in a post to social media, referring to North Korea by its official title, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Ukrainian, South Korean and Western intelligence have said in recent weeks that North Korea was sending between 10,000 and 12,000 soldiers to Russia to bolster Moscow’s war effort against Kyiv.

The U.S. said on Thursday that around 8,000 were stationed on the border with Ukraine. “We’ve not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days,” U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said during a joint press conference with U.S. …