Knowledge report comes days after Ukraine’s leader said almost 3,000 North Korean fighters have been ‘killed or injured’ in battle.

A North Korean soldier, who was fighting for Russia, has died in Ukrainian captivity due to severe wounds, according to South Korea’s spy agency.

The announcement by the National Intelligence Service in Seoul came on Friday, hours after the Yonhap news agency cited the agency as confirming for the first time that Ukrainian forces had captured a North Korean soldier. The report said he was alive, though the location where he was seized was not known.

Pyongyang has sent a large number of troops to build up Russia’s military, specifically to the Kursk line district where Ukraine mounted a shock line attack in August.

Affirmation of the fighter’s demise came days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy guaranteed that almost 3,000 North Korean warriors had been “killed or injured” such a long ways as they joined Russian soldiers in battle.

It denoted the primary huge gauge by Ukraine of North Korean losses half a month after Kyiv declared that North Korea had sent 10,000 to 12,000 soldiers to Russia to assist it in the very nearly three-year with fighting.

Ukraine’s tactical knowledge, known under its abbreviation GUR, said weighty losses had been caused for North Korean units by Ukrainian strikes close to Novoivanovka in Kursk, supply issues and even deficiencies of drinking water.

Fortified ties 

North Korea and Russia have fortified their tactical ties since Moscow attacked Ukraine in February 2022.

A milestone guard settlement among Pyongyang and Moscow endorsed in June came into force this month, with Russian President Vladimir Putin hailing it as a “advancement report”.

Ukraine’s partners have called Pyongyang’s developing contribution in Russia’s conflict in Ukraine a “risky extension” of the contention.

South Korean government official Lee Seong-kweun said last week that Pyongyang’s troopers were being “used as nonessential forefront attack units”.

SOURCE  : WSN24 AND NEWS AGENCIES