North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russia in its war against Ukraine have not been seen in battle for several weeks, raising speculation that they have been withdrawn after suffering heavy losses, according to South Korea’s spy agency.

The National Intelligence Service in Seoul this week confirmed media reports that North Korean troops had been pulled from the frontline around the middle of January.

North Korea began sending an estimated 11,000 troops to the Russian Kursk region in late 2024, soon after the North’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, agreed a mutual defence pact designed to strengthen their alliance against what they called a US-led “western hegemony”.

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    17 days ago

    Whoa it’s almost like they weren’t there in the first place :0

    Guess they couldn’t keep the lie going forever lol

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      17 days ago

      it seems like it was a team of observers and probably there to measure the success of their rockets; like the americans are in ukraine to train them on how to use american weaponry.

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      17 days ago

      Inventing a “problem” then “solving” it. Looks like they’re learning from trump