NATO Chief Mark Rutte says the presence of North Korean troops on the battlefield in Ukraine would mark a "significant escalation" of Russia’s invasion. Rutte was responding to unverified warnings of troop movements by South Korea. It comes months after Moscow and Pyongyang signed a military deal. Our next report looks at the Kremlin’s expanding web of military partners – an alliance sometimes referred to by the acronym CRINKs.
00:00 What is CRINKs?
02:29 DW’s Fabian Kretschmer reports from Seoul
07:31 DW speaks with Velina Tchakarova, expert in geopolitics with a special focus on Russia and China
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