As the US legislator said in a written statement released on Wednesday, "the administration of US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris must make clear that the entry of North Korean forces into this conflict is a red line for the United States."
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier on Wednesday, speaking in Rome with journalists accompanying him on a foreign trip, outlined a version according to which North Korean military personnel are in Russia. On October 22, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the DPRK Permanent Mission to the UN called allegations of sending Korean People's Army (KPA) troops to Russia unfounded rumors. Thus, an employee of the permanent mission responded to accusations from the Ukrainian delegation that Pyongyang was allegedly planning to send military personnel to Russia.
The French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche wrote over the weekend that rumors about sending military personnel from the DPRK to the Russian Federation are implausible and only beneficial to Kyiv, since it is only in its interests to internationalize the conflict.