The fresh deployment comes after North Korea suffered heavy casualties on the front lines in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the South’s spy agency says.

South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea appears to have sent additional troops to Russia, after its soldiers deployed on the Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered heavy casualties.

South Korean intelligence estimates that about 300 North Korean soldiers have died in the conflict in Ukraine, with around 2,700 wounded. The fighting continues in the Ukraine war, where a new contingent of North Korean soldiers has been deployed by Pyongyang to support the Russian Army.

North Korea has sent additional troops to Russia's Kursk Oblast. The exact number of military personnel remains unknown. Source: Reuters with reference to intelligence and South Korean media outlets Details: Following South Korean media reports,

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says it is assessing size of Pyongyang’s deployment to the war in Ukraine.

North Korea has sent more than 1,000 additional soldiers from the country to Russia so far in 2025 to be deployed in the war in Ukraine, South Korean military sources said Thursday. “The North Korean troops were sent to Russia sometime in January and February,

North Korea has sent additional troops to Russia after suffering heavy losses in the war with Ukraine, a new assessment has found. South Korea’s national intelligence service (NIS) said it was determining exactly how many more troops North Korea has deployed, though local reports put the number at between 1,000 and 3,000 soldiers.

Behavior in this war, not just of Moscow and Kyiv but of other states as well, has been conditioned by Russia’s possession and Ukraine’s lack of weapons of mass destruction. Russia holds the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear warheads,

More than 10,000 soldiers from the reclusive state were sent to Russia in 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.

North Korea appears to have deployed additional troops to support Russia's war against Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency said on Thursday, local media reported.Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) in a press noted said that that number of recently deployed troops is being assessed as per a report in South Korean news agency Yonhap.