A wounded North Korean soldier captured by the Ukrainian military has died of his injuries, Seoul’s spy agency said Friday. Thousands of North Korean troops are believed to have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk region to repel a Ukrainian incursion.
A North Korean soldier who was captured by Ukrainian forces has died due to severe wounds, South Korea‘s spy agency said Friday.
“It has been confirmed through an allied intelligence agency that the North Korean soldier captured alive on December 26th has just passed away due to worsening wounds,” the South’s spy agency said in a statement.
South Korea’s spy agency had earlier confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia‘s war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces.
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Pyongyang has deployed thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s military, including in the Kursk border region where Ukraine mounted a shock border incursion in August.
The soldier was captured by the Ukrainian army, a South Korean intelligence source told AFP, adding that the location where he was seized was not known.
North Korea and Russia have strengthened their military ties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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