Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has intelligence information that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the conflict into a “world war.”
Zelenskyy did not go into further details about the claim that came a day after U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said in Seoul that Washington and its allies are alarmed by North Korea’s military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine but couldn’t confirm Ukrainian claims that North Korean soldiers were sent to fight for Moscow.
“We know about 10,000 soldiers of North Korea that they are preparing to send (to) fight against us,” Zelenskyy said, calling any North Korean involvement “the first step to a world war.”
The Ukrainian leader’s comments raised the stakes for his Western allies as he met with European Union leaders and then NATO defense ministers to discuss his “ victory plan ” to end the country’s devastating war with Russia.
The death of Liam Payne, who shot to stardom as a member of the boy band One Direction and grappled with intense global fame while still in his teens, sent shockwaves across the world Thursday as Argentine authorities continued their investigation at the scene.
Fans, music industry figures and fellow musicians paid tribute to Payne, 31, who died Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.
As fans and media swarmed the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina’s capital, the forensics unit worked inside on Thursday collecting evidence.
The Minnesota Supreme Court denied the University of St. Thomas’ appeal Tuesday that would have exempted it from submitting a second Environmental Assessment Worksheet for the Anderson Arena construction.According to Minnesota Administrative Rules Section 4410.0200 Subsection 60, a phased action is defined as “two or more projects to be undertaken by the same proposer that a RGU (responsible government unit) determines: A. will have environmental effects on the same geographic area; and B. are substantially certain to be undertaken sequentially over a limited period of time.”
Giovanni Mariani can be reached at mari6061@stthomas.edu.