North Korea suffers more than 3,000 casualties fighting for Russia, Zelensky says
South Korea said earlier on Monday that around 1,100 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded since entering combat this month
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that more than 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded fighting against Ukraine’s incursion in Russia’s Kursk region.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce the Russian military, including in the Kursk border region where Ukraine mounted a shock border incursion in August.
Zelensky wrote on social media that “according to preliminary data, the number of North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in the Kursk region has already exceeded 3,000”.
The Ukrainian president said the world needs to understand that “growing cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang” leads to a proportionate increase in “risk of destabilisation around the Korean peninsula and in neighbouring regions or waters”.