North Korea has sent more troops to Russia, South’s spy agency says

North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and broke out others to the confrontation line in the West Corsec region, according to the South Korean Intelligence Agency.

She said that the exact number of the additional sent forces were not known, but the military officials who were transferred in the South Korean media said they believed that it was not less than 1000.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has not confirmed the new publication.

North Korea is believed to have been subjected to heavy losses in the four months since its forces were deployed for the first time to help Russia in its war with Ukraine.

In January, Western officials told the BBC They believed that at least 1,000 of 11,000 soldiers sent from North Korea have been killed in the past three months. North Korea and Russia did not comment.

The South Korean Intelligence Agency said on Thursday that the North Korean forces in Russia had been re -deployed to the confrontation line in Kursk at the beginning of February “after about a month of calm.”

The Ukrainian Special Forces told the BBC Corset in January They did not see any North Korean forces for weeks. Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski later confirmed that they had returned to the confrontation line.

Previous reports attributed to South Korean intelligence indicate that North Korean soldiers were not ready for modern war, and they were especially vulnerable to Ukrainian drones.

but, Al -Hariqun and other military experts told the BBC These forces should not be reduced.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a widespread invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The fighting led to heavy losses on both sides.

Last August, Ukraine directed a head to the Russian Kursk region, taking into account the border guards. Russia has been trying to remove them since then.

While Ukraine’s gains have been steadily pushed, partly due to the arrival of North Koreans in Russia in October, it still maintains hundreds of square Russian territory and causes huge losses to its enemy.

The Russian army has publicly not disclosed the losses of the battlefield since September 2022, when 5,937 soldiers had been killed.

Zelensky put military losses in Ukraine in 45100 – but a number of military experts in both Ukraine and the West believe that the losses are much higher.

Reports began to appear that North Korean soldiers were deployed in October, after the deepening of bilateral relations between Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This included the signing of the Security and Defense Treaty.