North Korea prepares to send more troops to Russia
The attack came as South Korea’s military said North Korea is preparing to send more troops to join Russia’s fight against Ukraine, despite Pyongyang suffering a high rate of losses among its existing deployment of 11,000 and seeing some of its soldiers captured.
The officials, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, said that out of the estimated 11,000 troops sent from North Korea, known as DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), 4,000 were battle casualties.
The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia's Kursk region tells much about where North Korean-Russian relations are going.
Videos of captured North Korean troops posted online by Ukrainian President Zelensky show them admitting that they thought they were being sent on an exercise.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the wounded North Korean soldiers were taken to Kyiv and are communicating with Ukrainian officials.
The president has been in similar circumstances before, writes Edward Luttwak.
of South Korea said 300 of Pyongyang’s troops have been killed and another 2,700 wounded since joining Vladimir Putin’s forces last year. The agency assessed that the North Koreans are ...
North Korean soldiers have flooded into Ukraine as they fight alongside Russian troops to advance as far as possible ahead of a much-hinted ceasefire orchestrated by the US
The Budapest Memorandum of December 1994 provided security assurances to Ukraine for giving up their nuclear weapons.
South Korea rebuked President Trump’s remarks calling North Korea a “nuclear power,” raising concern about the relationship between the two countries. “North Korea’s denuclearization remains a
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said two North Korean soldiers had been captured in Russia’s Kursk region earlier this month