The U.S. White House has not officially confirmed South Korea’s announcement that North Korea has decided to deploy a large number of troops to support Russia in the Ukraine war, but it has expressed significant concern about the possibility.

Officials in Ukraine and South Korea have accused North Korea of dispatching troops, estimated to number in the thousands perhaps, to aid Russia in the war in Ukraine. Both Moscow and Pyongyang have denied the claims and U.

The statement is Pyongyang's first public reaction to multiple reports of such a deployment from Kyiv and Seoul.

Ukrainian officials, including Kyiv's top diplomat, and South Korea's intelligence agency say North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to help Russia with its war against Ukraine.

Several thousand North Korean soldiers will fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. The exact number of soldiers from North Korea that will be deployed is still unclear: it is certainly 1,500 soldiers,

North Korea has not sent troops to Russia to help Moscow fight Ukraine, one of its United Nations representatives said Monday, dismissing Seoul's claims as "groundless rumour". South Korea's spy agency said Friday that Pyongyang sent a "large-scale" troop deployment to help its ally,