NIS "At least 100 North Korean soldiers killed and injured in Ukraine"

The National Intelligence Service said it believes that at least a hundred North Korean soldiers were killed and 1,000 wounded in the Russia-Ukraine war.

At a closed-door meeting of the National Assembly's Intelligence Committee, the NIS explained that some of the estimated 10,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to the battleground Kursk region began to be put into actual combat in December.

He also said that even before the fighting, Ukraine's missile drone attacks and accidents during training had already caused several North Korean casualties, including high-level ones.

The National Intelligence Service analyzed that the North Korean military seems to be being consumed as a front-line storm troop in an unfamiliar battlefield environment called open areas, with many casualties despite the small number of battles.

"We are closely monitoring the possibility of sending additional troops as rumors of additional troops are circulating within the storm corps and Kim Jong-un's preparations to observe the drill," he said, adding that he expects Russia to provide benefits in return, including modernizing North Korea's conventional weapons.