Russia seeks 30,000 more North Korean troops for Ukraine, alarming the West

North Korea is deploying a missile unit to western Russia, and Moscow seeks 30,000 more North Korean troops for Ukraine—Pyongyang's biggest foreign war role since the 1950s. Ukraine's GUR said the unit may have up to 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers, with about 90 personnel expected in Russia's Voronezh region. Zelenskiy said Russia was preparing facilities there for another 30,000 troops; Reuters could not verify this. Pyongyang cites a mutual-defense treaty and gains economic aid and military experience. About 9,500 North Korean troops remain in Kursk; NATO warns such ties threaten Europe, the Indo-Pacific and North America.