KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Thursday (Oct 17) to have intelligence that Russia is preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the fight against Kyiv , calling it "the first step to a world war". Zelenskyy has previously accused North Korea of sending troops to Russia's army but this was the first time he gave an exact figure. He said that based on "information from our intelligence" an unspecified number of North Korean soldiers were already on "occupied