At least 300 North Korean soldiers sent to participate in russia's war against Ukraine have been killed, and about 2,700 more have been injured, South Korean intelligence says.
The South Korean news agency Yonhap News has announced this, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
According to Yonhap, this information was announced during a closed session of the parliamentary intelligence committee.
It is also reported that South Korean intelligence, having analyzed recently obtained video recordings of the fighting, explained the "mass casualties" of North Korean soldiers by their lack of understanding of modern warfare, including futile shooting at drones from long distances.
According to South Korean intelligence, North Korea obliges its soldiers to kill themselves if necessary so as not to be captured by the Ukrainian military.
According to the publication, a representative of the ruling South Korean People's Power party, Lee Seong-kweun, commenting on Ukraine's recent release of a video of two wounded North Korean soldiers in russia's Kursk Oblast, said: "The prisoner of war has not expressed his intention to come to South Korea."
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters in the Kursk Oblast captured two North Korean soldiers; they have already been transported to Kyiv, where they are communicating with investigators. In a video released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, one of the soldiers, when asked if he wants to return home, answers that he wants to stay in Ukraine.
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