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South Korea has sought Kyiv’s cooperation in the handling of North Korean prisoners of war.
Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul made the request during a telephone call on Monday with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.
North Korea has deployed thousands of troops to support Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, Ukrainian, US and South Korean assessments show, for Pyongyang’s first major involvement in a war since the 1950s.
Cho reaffirmed Seoul’s efforts to support the Ukrainian people and said Seoul would accept all North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine if they wished to go to South Korea, the foreign ministry said in a statement.


Kyiv says more than 3,000 North Korean soldiers were killed or injured in Russia by early January 2025.
This year Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said they suspected Pyongyang was preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, despite suffering losses and the capture of some of its soldiers.
In January, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region, in his country’s first revelation of such captives taken alive since their entry into the war last autumn.


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Ukraine says it has captured North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. Thousands more are thought to have been killed or injured


Ukraine says it has captured North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. Thousands more are thought to have been killed or injured.


What to do with North Korean POWs in Ukraine? Kyiv, Seoul discuss

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Ukraine says it has captured North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. Thousands more are thought to have been killed or injured

Ukraine says it has captured North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. Thousands more are thought to have been killed or injured