It is assumed that more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers were injured or killed in the Russian Kursk region to support war in Moscow, Ukraine, according to the British intelligence, underlining North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Vladimir Putin now.
The numbers are more than half of the 11,000 North Korean soldiers originally deployed in the Kursk region, the United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry said in a contribution to the X Social Media platform. “The significant degrees of DPRK victims were almost certainly maintained primarily through large, highly worn disassembled attacks,” the statement said. DPRK means the official name of the North, the Korean Democratic People’s Republic.
Bloomberg was unable to verify the numbers independently. Neither Russia nor Ukraine provide official data on the number of combat victims. For the first time in April, North Korea acknowledged that it had deployed soldiers to support Russia, but did not confirm the number of soldiers sent or the level of victims.
The estimate comes when Putin and Kim are ready to mark the first anniversary of their mutual defense contracts this week, which revived an agreement dating back to the Cold War. Since then, Kim has become a key source of missiles, ammunition and even infantrymen for the Russian war.
At the meeting with the highest security assistant Putin, Sergei Shoig, in Pyongyang at the beginning of this month, Kim said that North Korea would “unconditionally support” Russia and “his foreign policy on all fundamental international political issues”. He marked the second visit to Shoig in less than three months.
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