<h1>Military deployment: North Korea reportedly sent additional troops to support Russia, raising technology transfer and assistance concerns.</h1> North Korea appears to have increased military deployment to support Russian forces in the Kursk region, with intelligence reporting troop redeployments and media citing additional January-February deployments. Multiple sources report significant North Korean casualties and injuries among deployed forces. The deployment accompanies extensive North Korean conventional arms supplies to Russia and raises concerns that Russia may transfer high tech weapons technologies and provide economic assistance that could bolster North Korea's weapons programmes.