France has said it is concerned about growing military cooperation between Russia and North Korea after the South’s spy agency said Pyongyang had sent troops to fight in Ukraine. “An increase in North Korean cross-cooperation and military support for the Russian war effort in Ukraine is very worrying,” foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said. If the South Korean intelligence is confirmed, the troop deployment would bring a third country into the war and intensify the standoff between North Korea and the West. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) in Seoul said in a statement that …