North Korean casualties surpass 6,000 in Ukraine war, UK intelligence says

The figure represents more than half of the North Korean troops believed to have been initially deployed to Russia’s Kursk region

The number amounts to more than half of the 11,000 North Korean troops thought to have been initially deployed to the Kursk region, the UK defence ministry said in a post on social media on Sunday.

“Significant DPRK casualty rates have almost certainly been sustained primarily through large, highly attritional dismounted assaults,” the UK defence ministry’s statement said. DPRK stands for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. No evidence was provided to substantiate the assessment.

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