UK intel reports casualties among North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia

The UK Ministry of Defense reported the information.

The total number of casualties amounts to more than half of the approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers initially deployed to the region. According to open-source information, North Korea later sent a limited number of reinforcements to Kursk. North Korean troops have almost certainly suffered significant losses due to large-scale, exhausting infantry assaults.

As previously reported, on June 4, Russian Security Council Secretary and former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited North Korea for a meeting with leader Kim Jong Un.

"Shoigu has highly likely been a key interlocutor with DPRK regarding DPRK's support to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. DPRK operations have thus far been confined to the Kursk region. Any decision to deploy into internationally recognised, sovereign Ukrainian territory in support of Russian forces, would almost certainly require sign-off from both Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un," analysts believe.