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[NY Post] Approximately 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting Ukrainian troops in Russia, with minimal battlefield gains to show for it and ongoing battles with language and cultural barriers, according to the UK Ministry of Defense.
The losses, which include those missing and captured, account for about a third of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s 11,000-member deployment to Russia’s Kursk region, which began in October, and confirm estimates made by Ukrainian officials.
About 1,000 of them were killed in action.
Some of the North Korean soldiers have reportedly chosen suicide over surrender in the face of brutal “human wave” attacks out of fear that their captures would be treated as treason back home.
Yet, North Korea is likely “accelerating preparations” to send even more troops to Russia, South Korea’s military said Friday. |