SpaceWar.com reports: “US top diplomat Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that the deployment of North Korean troops alongside Russian forces on the Ukrainian border demanded a ‘firm response,’ during talks with top EU and NATO officials.

The secretary of state was in Brussels to confer with Washington’s allies on ramping up support for Kyiv before Donald Trump reclaims the White House — potentially jeopardising future aid.

Addressing reporters alongside NATO chief Mark Rutte, Blinken said they had discussed the entry of Pyongyang’s forces ‘into the battle, and now, quite literally, in combat — which demands and will get a firm response.’

The US State Department confirmed Tuesday that thousands of North Korean troops have begun ‘engaging in combat operations’ alongside Russian forces in the Kursk region, near the border with Ukraine.

Blinken called it ‘a profound and incredibly dangerous development’, without specifying what form a US response might take…”