A fragment of a note written by a North Korean soldier who died while deployed in Russia’s war against Ukraine suggests that Pyongyang may have sent convicts to support Russia. Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces revealed a memo allegedly written by a soldier identified as Jung Kyung-hong via Telegram on Dec.

The North Korean losses amount to almost 10 percent of the country’s deployment to Russia, the Biden administration said.

White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby said Russia was treating North Korean troops as “expendable” by sending them on impractical ground operations in its war against