The unexpected presence of North Korean soldiers at the head of Ukraine, of which there was first news last Octoberwas a shock for Ukrainian military command, who had to face an enemy he did not count and who did not know what his performance would be. The suspicion, confirmed later, was that the Kremlin would not have any empathy to allocate to the soldiers of Kim Jong-un at the first line of fire regardless of what the invoice to be paid would be.
Now, the reports of the British secret services, which carry out a daily and very precise monitoring of the assessment of the fighting, have shown that the mortality rate is very high and, of course, unasumable for western standards.
According to the last update of the British agency, it is “highly likely” that these north Korea days “has suffered more than 5,000 casualties in offensive combat operations Against the Ukrainian forces in the Russian Oblast of Kursk “, the Russian region occupied by Ukraine and that has been the place chosen by Putin to allocate to the Asian military. Of those 5,000, almost one third are dead and the rest injured to which the Russian army has had to withdraw from its offensive line.
But the most striking fact is that, according to British agents, the North Korean battalion has been reduced to almost half with such a low level. “The total number of casualties amounts to almost half of the approximately 11,000 North Korea soldiers initially deployed in the Kursk region,” says the British Ministry of Defense Ministry.
“Open sources reports suggest that North Korea has subsequently deployed a limited number of additional troops in Kursk For support. The significant casualties rates almost with certainty have been mainly caused by dismissal assaults on a large and highly unpacking scale, “add these sources.
This cost in military casualties is explained in part because Russia has pressed the accelerator in Kursk in recent weeks, which has allowed him to recover much of the invaded territory. “The forces of North Korea and Russian forces have made territorial progress in recent weeks in offensive operations against Ukrainian forces in Kursk. It is likely that Ukrainian forces still hold at least one support point in the Russian territory of Kursk,” they add.
Until now, the North Korea operations have been limited to the Kursk region. Any decision to deploy in internationally recognized Ukrainian territory, in support of the Russian forces, almost certainly required the approval of both the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and of the leader of the Popular Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Una, “concludes the intelligence information.