The South Korean National Intelligence Agency (NIS) warned on Thursday that there was evidence suggesting that Russia had introduced a second infusion of North Korean troops at the Ukrainian War Theatre in early February.
The NIS said it was deployed to Kursk, the Russian territory that Ukraine opposed in August, and to Kursk, which expanded the battlefield from Ukrainian lands. According to To the Korean news agency Yonghap.
“After about a month of lull, North Korean forces have been returned to Kursk's frontline from the first week of February,” the agency explained. “It appears there has been an additional troop deployment, but the scale of it is still being investigated.”
Confirmation continues with the publication of a Report on wednesday Korea, Junggan Ilbo It shows that during the first two months of 2025, North Korea deployed troops of 1,000 to 3,000 people to invade Ukraine.
“About 1,000-3,000 new North Korean troops were deployed on the Russian cargo ships and military aircraft Kursk Front between January and February.” John Gun Reported citing anonymous sources. “It included mechanized infantry, engineering and electronic reconnaissance units that were lacking in the first deployment last year.”
Russia began an invasion of Ukraine in 2014, “annexing” the Crimea Peninsula and supporting separatists in the eastern Donbas region. In 2022, Strongman Vladimir Putin announced a “special operation” to expel Ukrainian President Voldy Mil Zelensky because he is said to be a “Nazi.” Zelensky, a Jew, eagerly condemned the accusation. Through “special manipulation,” Putin “annexed” four more regions of Ukraine. It is the two Donbas regions: Donetsk and Luhansk, Herson and Zaporisia.
Russia is currently in talks with President Donald Trump's administration and finds an invasion resolution that it chose to launch. Trump says he hopes to meet with Putin in the near future to discuss the end of the war, but the fight at the Ukrainian War Theatre, reportedly supported by North Korean forces, continued unabated.
Zelensky warned in October that there was evidence that North Korea, a nearby ally in Russia, was preparing to send 10,000 soldiers to the frontline of the invasion. Their presence in the war appears to be the result of Kim Jong-un, the dictator of the Pact Communist who signed with Putin in June. Ukraine has since released a video of a man claiming that North Korean soldiers were captured and interviewed the language aid of South Korean agents.
As of Thursday, John Gun It has been reported Ukrainian officials believed that around 11,000 North Koreans were fighting them as part of the Russian invasion, and 4,000 people had been killed.
Neither Russia nor North Korea has confirmed that North Korean soldiers are fighting Ukraine, nor provide numbers to compare with Kiev. John Gun More farther It has been reported On Thursday, citing “multiple familiar sources,” Pyongyang rejects the bodies of fallen soldiers and is seeking ways to prevent their families from looking at them.
“The Russian army has continued to request the relocation of the bodies of North Korean soldiers killed during the action, but this has not been achieved due to North Korea's refusal,” the source told the newspaper.
North Korea strictly controls information entering the border, and the only news outlet that its content consumes is produced by the country's communist overlords, meaning that the average North Korean citizen has little information about what is happening in Ukraine. John Gun If a family of fallen soldiers saw the wounds caused to the relative's bodies, he suggested that “the possibility of internal anxiety and public dissatisfaction may be greater than expected.”
John Gun Added pathological details that North Korean officials are studying the use of “ice burials.” This is a procedure in which the body was frozen in liquid nitrogen and then crushed – in the form of erasing evidence of what was happening to the soldier.
North Korea was traditionally full of militaristic propaganda to citizens, whether soldiers were fighting a hot war or not. This has not changed in the aftermath of the mutual defense treaty with Russia. Thursday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) It has been reported The work explains how he volunteers to protect borders along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) with South Korea, while volunteering to protect borders with South Korea, and the number of graduate students who volunteer for military services is said to have skyrocketed.
“More than 300 graduate students from Pyongyang's senior junior high schools” alleged that “the capital of DPRK volunteered for military service in frontline border positions out of a passionate desire to devote one's youth and support socialist causes as arms.”
“To praise young people in revolutionary military uniforms is the highest honor and pride of young people in today's era,” KCNA reported the speaker at an event celebrating volunteers.
Kim Jong-un himself reportedly visited the Military Training Academy on Monday and Tuesday. John Gun It has been reported. Kim emphasized that “every student must prepare to become a trusted military member of the field officer type, simply by winning a sure victory by learning about the actual experiences of modern warfare in Korean style.”
