North Korea is likely to send more troops to Ukraine to help Russia, an expert has warned. According to reports, North Korea has already sent 11,000 soldiers to help Vladimir Putin's forces. This came after Moscow and Pyongyang reached an agreement for a security deal earlier this year.
North Korean troops have likely suffered losses in Kursk due to inexperience and issues with Russian forces, but could learn to adapt, experts said.
Possible technological transfers from Moscow to Pyongyang are a concern fo Seoul and Tokyo, while Beijing juggles its interests to remain equidistant
North Korea demonstrated this year that it could produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a matter of months, the head of a research organization that traces weapons used in the war said Wednesday.
According to the US and South Korea, North Korea has deployed more than 10,000 troops to help Russia fight the war against Ukraine, with Pyongyang also reportedly shipping more than 10,000 containers of artillery rounds, anti-tank rockets, mechanised howitzers and rocket launchers to Russia.
North Korea on Thursday lashed out at "reckless provocation" by the US and its allies amid growing criticism of Pyongyang's support for Russia's war in Ukraine.
Pyongyang's troops fighting alongside Vladimir Putin's forces in Russia's Kursk region are being killed and injured according to the U.S.
Russia's war in Ukraine is reverberating around the world, with dozens of countries directly or indirectly involved.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency is claiming that around 30 North Korean troops were killed or wounded in fighting against the Ukrainian army at the weekend in Russia’s Kursk border region.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reports ‘at least’ 100 North Koreans killed and probably another 1,000 wounded, mostly the victims
Andrei Lankov is a historian of North Korea at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. In 2017, the highly militarized regime of Kim Jong Un of North Korea found itself confronting a rare coalition of China,
At least 100 North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed with another 1,000 injured in combat against Ukrainian forces in intense fighting in the Kursk region, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday citing the country's spy agency.