After Ukraine claimed they had been withdrawn due to heavy losses, South Korea’s spy agency reported to AFP on Tuesday ( Feb 4 ) that North Korean soldiers who had previously been fighting alongside Russia’s army on the Kursk front line appeared not to have been in combat since mid-January.
According to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, “it appears that the North Vietnamese soldiers deployed to the Kursk region of Russia have never engaged in combat since mid-January.”
” One explanation for this may be the onset of several deaths, but the specific details are still being monitored”, it added in a speech.
The defense of Ukraine reported on Friday that it thought North Vietnamese soldiers who had been “withdrawn” from Kursk after suffering significant loss.
More than 10,000 troops were dispatched by Pyongyang to help Russian forces fighting in its eastern Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a shocking cross-border rude in August, according to intelligence agencies in the West, South Korea, and Ukraine.
Moscow and Pyongyang have not confirmed the army deployment, but the two countries have a mutual defense partnership that was signed when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the nuclear-armed North for the first time last year.
In an awkward loss for the Kremlin, Kyiv seized lots of border communities during the activity, which was the first time a foreign troops had crossed into Russian country since World War II.
The North Vietnamese implementation was supposed to strengthen Russia’s army and aid it eliminate Ukraine’s troops, but almost six months on, Ukraine also holds swathes of Soviet territory.