About 600 North Korean troops were killed from a total deployment of 15,000 battles due to Russia against Ukraine, South Korean legislators said on Wednesday, citing the country’s secret service agency.
North Korea has suffered around 4,700 victims so far, including injuries and deaths, although his troops have shown signs of improved combat skills over six months through the use of modern weapons such as drones, the legislators said.
In return for sending troops and the supply of weapons to Russia, Pyongyang seems to have received technical support for spy satellites as well as drones and anti-air missiles.
“After six months of participation in the war, the North Korean military has become less incapable, and its ability to fight has improved significantly because it got used to the use of new weapons such as drones,” said Lee Seong-Kweun, member of the National Intelligence Committee of the Parliamentary Intelligence, after he was informed by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
At the beginning of this week, Pyongyang confirmed for the first time that troops to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, under the command of the Fiihrer Kim Jong Un, had contributed to regaining control over Russian territory, which were occupied by Ukraine.
North Korea’s unprecedented use of thousands of troops as well as massive quantities of artillery ammunition and rockets gives Russia a decisive lead in the Western Kursk region and have brought the two economically and politically isolated countries closer.
Ukraine has released a short video in which two North Korean soldiers are interviewed in Kyiv after being accepted as prisoners of war in Kursk, Russia.
Lee, the legislator, added that corpses of dead North Korean soldiers were cremated in Kursk before they were shipped home.
It is also believed that Pyongyang has sent around 15,000 workers to Russia, said the legislator, citing intelligence agencies.
North Korean workers in overseas are known as the source of the hard currency income of the regime, but UN sanctions prohibit the use of North Korean workers in third countries.
