According to NIS (National Intelligence Service in South Korea), the number of soldiers sent by Kim Jong Un and killed in Ukraine It was overflowed in a few months, from 600 in April to nearly 2,000 today. Pyongyang, allegedly sent more than 10,000 troops to the Kursk region of Russia in 2024, also provides Moscow ammunition, rockets and heavy artillery, according to Seoul and its Western allies.
Nis also estimates that the Kim Jong Un regime plans to send an additional 6,000 troops to Russia for the War in Ukraine, of which about 1,000 have already reached the front.
Kim Jong Un honors families of the fallen
The North Korean leader recently sent a message to the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine fighting for Russia. According to the official KCNA news agency, some of them had already met at a pause ceremony last week.
Pyongyang and Moscow have been linked by 2024 with a security and defense agreement, which has enhanced their military cooperation. Kim Jong Un is expected to attend Beijing Wednesday Wednesday at a large military parade for 80 years since the end of World War II, in the presence of 25 foreign leaders, including Vladimir Putin.
A war with opaque reports
Neither Moscow nor Kiev reveal their losses. In June 2024, Vladimir Putin had spoken of “nearly 700,000” Russian soldiers developed in Ukraine, a number that he repeated a year later by Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski.