More than 6,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or injured while fighting alongside Russia’s forces in Kursk where Ukraine has presence due to its incursion, the British ministry of defence has assessed.
“Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) forces have highly likely sustained more than 6,000 casualties in offensive combat operations against Ukrainian forces in the Russian oblast of Kursk,” the UK ministry of defence said in its latest assessment on Sunday, using North Korea’s official name.
