South Korean legislators update the losses estimated as a result of information from the country’s intelligence agency.
About 600 North Korean soldiers were killed by fighting in the Russian war in Ukraine, said South Korean legislators, citing intelligence officials.
Explaining after a camera in camera by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) Wednesday, Lee Seong-Kweun and Kim Byung-Keed told journalists that around 4,700 North Koreans had been killed or injured so far in the war.
Lee and Kim, who co -chaired the intelligence committee of the Legislative Assembly, comments two days after Pyongyang confirmed for the first time that he had sent troops to Russia to support the Moscow War.
In a report by the Official Korean Central Press Agency (KCNA) on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, would have said that he had ordered that the deployment of troops “destroy and destroy the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupants and release the Kursk region in cooperation with the Russian armed forces”.
The latest victims’ figures mark a significant leap in the NIS briefing to the legislators in January, when the spy agency said that around 300 North Korean soldiers had been killed in the conflict.
In their briefing with journalists, Lee and Kim, members of the Party of the Power of the Conservative People and the Liberal Democratic Party, respectively, said that the NIS estimated that Pyongyang deployed about 15,000 soldiers in total.
The legislators also said that Pyongyang seems to have received technical assistance on spy satellites in exchange for their aid, as well as drones, electronic war equipment and air surface missiles SA-22.
“After six months of participation in the war, the North Korean army has become less inept and its capacity for combat has improved considerably as it gets used to the use of new weapons such as drones,” Lee to journalists told.
