“It looks like additional troops were sent, but determining their exact numbers is underway” – said the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
The Yonhap agency, citing anonymous military officials, announced that to Russia “over a thousand soldiers” were directed at the turn of January and February. Their current deployment is unknown because the army is not able to monitor their movement after leaving the port of Chongjin and the region of the most in the northernational part North Korea. According to cited sources It is also not sure if they will be directed to the front.
Ni also confirmed that “after a month's break, North Korea forces have been involved again from the first week of February on the Kurski front.”
War in Ukraine. North Korea on the side of Russia
According to the authorities in Seoul, the leader of North Korea Wineery You're he sent last year over 10,000 soldiers As “cannon meat” in exchange for Russian technical assistance for the strict sanctions of Pyongyang arms and satellite programs. Korean services estimate that about 300 soldiers were killed, and 2.7 thousand was injured. Authorities Ukrainian They talk about 4,000 wounded or killed.
As Nis added, despite the large number of victims among North Korean soldiers, there are no reports on the transport of bodies to North Korea. “This raises the possibility that the transport of the corpse was abandoned Due to the costs, “writes Yonhap.
The Ukrainian army entered the Kurski District on August 6, 2024, it was explained at that time that one of the goals of this offensive was to force the Russians to transfer some of the forces from Donbass in the east of Ukraine.