North Korean Troops Give Kim 'Leverage' Amid Putin's Ominous Korea Warning

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could use his country's troops that are fighting for Vladimir Putin against Ukraine as leverage for Pyongyang pursuing provocations in East Asia. That assessment, by geopolitical analyst Sang Hun Seok, Indo-Pacific Visiting Fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), comes as South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Wednesday that North Korean troops have moved to Russia's Kursk region over the past two weeks.