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Nicholas Cecil

North Korean troops 'withdraw from frontline' in Putin's Ukraine war after 'heavy losses'

North Korean troops have been withdrawn from the frontline in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war, according to British military intelligence chiefs.

Pyongyang is believed to have sent some 11,000 soldiers to help Putin’s army recapture a swathe of the Kursk region of Russia which Ukrainian forces seized in a surprise attack last summer.

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