‘Repatriated 2 thousand wounded between January and March this year’
About 600 North Korean soldiers were killed by fighting alongside the Russian forces in the war against Ukraine, today a parliamentarian and expert in South Korean intelligence said.
“Until now, the losses of North Korean troops are estimated at around 4,700, of which about 600 deaths,” the deputy Lee Seong-Kweun, member of the parliamentary commission for Intelligence, told journalists, after a briefing with the military authorities of Seoul.
Between January and March, about 2,000 injured soldiers have been repatriated to North Korea by plane and train and it is believed that they are in isolation in Pyongyang and other parts of the country, said Lee. As for the dead, their bodies were cremated in Russia and their ashes were repatriated to North Korea, said Seoul deputy. “North Korea supported Kursk’s reconquest by Russia by deploying 18,000 soldiers in two phases.
Since March, when Kursk has actually been regained, the number of clashes has decreased, “explained the South Korean parliamentarian. According to him,” the possibility of a third phase cannot be completely excluded “, even if Pyongyang has not yet given any signal that suggests to send new troops to Russia.
