About 4,700 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded for Russia

Seoul, South Korea – An estimated 4,700 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded against the Ukrainian armed forces during the fight.

The assessment took place two days after North Korea had confirmed for the first time that she had sent combat troops to help Russia recapture parts of the Kursk region that lost control of a surprising Ukrainian idea last year.

In a briefing of the parliamentary committee for the parliamentary committee from the southern door, the National Secret Service in South Korea said, according to Lee Seong Kweun, one of the legislators who took part in the meeting, 4,700 victims, including 600 deaths, at the Russia-Ukraine slaughter fronts.

Lee said reporters who said NIS that 2,000 injured North Korean soldiers were returned by air or train to North Korea between January and March. He quoted the NIS with the words that the dead North Korean soldiers were cremated in Russia before their remains were sent home.

In January, the NIS said that around 300 North Korean soldiers had died and another 2,700 had been injured, and the South Korean military increased the estimated victims to 4,000 last month.

On Monday, North Korea announced that the guide Kim Jong Un had decided to send troops to “eradicate the Ukrainian neo -Nazi occupiers and to free the area of ​​Kursk in cooperation with the Russian armed forces”. Russian President Vladimir Putin later made a statement in the North Korea and promised not to forget the victims of North Korean soldiers.

Both Kim and Putin said that the North Korean use was made in 2024 as part of the defense contract of its countries, which means that each side must help if the other is attacked. The United States, South Korea and its partners say that North Korea also supplied large quantities of conventional weapons to fill up with Russia's exhausted stocks. They suspect that Russia provides North Korea in return with military and economic support.

The United States, South Korean and Ukraine said that North Korea sent 10,000 to 12,000 soldiers to Russia last autumn. The South Korean military said in March that North Korea sent around 3,000 other troops to Russia at the beginning of this year.

During the Wednesday meeting, NIS said that Russia gave North Korea air defense rockets, electronic warfare, drones and technology for espionage satellite start, according to Kim Byung-Kee, another legislator who participated in the NIS briefing.

Kim quoted the NIS with the words that 15,000 North Korean workers were also sent to Russia under bilateral industrial cooperation programs. The legislator said that the amount of North Korean missiles and artillery sent to Russia was worth billions of dollars, but the NIS had not discovered any signs that Russia had sent North Korea cash transfers for them.