South Korea has raised the prospect of sending weapons to Ukraine, in response to North Korea’s reported dispatch of troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war on Ukraine, underscoring the risk of a divided Korean peninsula getting dragged into the conflict.

Seoul’s spy agency said Friday that Pyongyang sent a ’large-scale’ troop deployment to help its ally, claiming that 1,500 special forces were already training in Russia’s Far East and ready to head so

South Korea, Japan and the U.S. are rushing to address the high possibility of Pyongyang sending combat troops to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine.