North Korea plans to send additional forces to Russia’s war against Ukraine – NYT with reference to the Pentagon

In the next two months, the DPRK will send reinforcements to the North Korean military, which is already fighting against Ukraine on the side of Russia. This was reported by The New York Times with reference to a senior official of the US Defense Ministry.

The interlocutor of the newspaper did not give details.

The BBC, with reference to Western officials, writes that by mid-January, North Korean troops in the Kursk region had lost about four thousand people killed and wounded, of which about a thousand were killed.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service previously claimed that at least 300 North Korean soldiers were killed in the war with Ukraine. Another 2,700 North Korean soldiers were wounded, according to intelligence.

Ukraine and South Korea claimed that the DPRK sent more than 10,000 military personnel to Russia.

On January 12, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Kyiv is ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if he arranges their exchange for Ukrainian soldiers who are in Russian captivity.