The U.S. government announced on October 31 that it had acquired information pointing to the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk region amid the escalating tension with Ukraine. Robert Wood, the U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN, shared this information at a Security Council meeting, where he stressed the reliability of the intelligence and requested confirmation from the Russian representative regarding the presence of North Korean forces. In response, the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Anna Evstigneeva, refrained from confirming or denying the claim. The day before, Russ…