Pentagon says it cannot confirm North Korean troops are 'gorging themselves on porn' after being deployed to fight against Ukraine

The Pentagon has said they are incapable to verify whether North Korean troops are 'gorging themselves connected porn' aft being enlisted to combat successful Ukraine. 

A shocking study by Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman revealed this week that Kim Jong Un's troops were watching big contented successful their barracks having ne'er enjoyed specified unrestricted entree to the web. 

However, US Department of Defense spokesperson Major Charlie Dietz said helium was incapable to verify 'any North Korean net habits oregon virtual ''extracurriculars'' successful Russia'.

He added that the Pentagon is lone acrophobic with the 'more serious' aspects of the North Korean military's narration with Russia. 

'As for net access, that's a question champion directed to Moscow,' Dietz said.

'Right now, our attraction remains connected supporting Ukraine and addressing the much important determination information concerns,' helium concluded.

Up to 10,000 of Pyongyang's troops are thought to beryllium connected the brink of entering the Ukraine struggle with immoderate having already made their mode to the Kursk borderline region, US quality has suggested.

Though afloat Internet entree is disposable for high-level officials and subject figures successful North Korea, the bulk of citizens are lone granted entree to Kwangmyong oregon 'the agleam star' network.

This is the pariah state's lone sanctioned web work and is simply a heavy firewalled and restricted mentation of the Internet which does not licence entree to immoderate overseas websites, media oregon quality services and is alternatively replete with authorities propaganda.

Russia's state-run media and communications regulator Roskomnadzor besides maintains an Internet postulation regularisation strategy known arsenic TSPU, which was formalised successful 2019 and requires Russian net work providers to guarantee government-supplied instrumentality is installed successful their networks.

But virtual backstage networks (VPNs) - tools that let Internet users to encrypt their information and disguise their IP addresses to entree sites overseas - are not yet banned and are wide utilized to circumvent the censors.

It was revealed earlier this twelvemonth that Russia plans to put astir 60 cardinal roubles ($660 million) implicit the adjacent 5 years to widen TSPU's remit and assistance it further capabilities arsenic the Kremlin seeks to further signifier the communicative astir the warfare successful Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials declared earlier this week that Kyiv's forces had clashed with North Korean troops for the archetypal clip arsenic Kim Jong Un's soldiers fought alongside their Russian counterparts to repel Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials declared earlier this week that Kyiv's forces had clashed with North Korean troops for the archetypal clip arsenic Kim Jong Un's soldiers fought alongside their Russian counterparts to repel Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region.

In an interrogation with South Korean broadcaster KBS, Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov reported his troops had engaged a 'small group' of North Korean soldiers conscionable crossed the Russian border.

His claims were backed up by US officials who confirmed to Reuters that North Korean troops were actively progressive successful combat successful Russia's Kursk portion connected November 4.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the deficiency of Western effect to North Korea's involvement, remarking that these 'first battles with North Korea unfastened a caller section of instability successful the world.'

The alarm was archetypal raised by Ukrainian and South Korean quality services who reported that a contingent of up to 11,000 North Korean soldiers had arrived successful Russia and had undergone training.

Images of the troops engaged connected the battlefield are yet to emerge, but clips purporting to amusement Pyongyang's soldiers astatine grooming camps successful Russia person been wide circulated online.

Russian soldiers taken captive successful Kursk person besides been recorded telling their captors of difficulties they had experienced communicating with the North Koreans, adding that immoderate units had suffered affable fire.

In 1 clip, a haggard-looking captive of warfare says his portion was successful a wood with 10 North Korean soldiers aft having been sent to excavation retired trenches erstwhile they were caught successful a crossfire.

'During the assault, the Koreans started firing astatine us', helium explained.

'We tried to explicate to them wherever to aim, but I deliberation they changeable 2 of our own'.

'I decided it was amended to surrender successful this concern than to beryllium killed by our ain bullet', the worker said.