South Korea’s military says it suspects North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Russia after its soldiers already deployed on the Russian-Ukraine war fronts suffered heavy casualties

South Korea's military said on Friday that it suspects North Korea is preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, even after suffering losses and seeing some of its soldiers captured.

According to the BBC, 4,000 of the 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia have been killed, wounded, are missing, or have been captured. "They are cannon fodder, and the Russian officers care even less for them than they do for their own men,