Pentagon "Unable to confirm reports of 500 North Korean soldiers killed in Kursk"

The U.S. Department of Defense said it could not confirm reports that 500 North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk region were killed in a storm-shadow cruise missile strike by Ukraine.

Sabrina Singh, a deputy defense spokesman, told a briefing on the 25th local time that North Korean troops were in the Kursk region and ready to engage with Ukrainian forces, but said she could not confirm reports of casualties.

Asked if there was any signal that North Korean troops had moved to the Ukrainian region, he said there was no signal that there was a North Korean army in Ukraine, adding that they were deployed around the Kursk region, but they were not moving to Ukraine at this point.

Earlier on the 23rd, the U.S. military media Global Defense Corporation reported that 500 North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia were killed in Ukraine's Storm Shadow cruise missile attack.