Officials in Kyiv have revealed that intelligence sources have said it is “highly likely” North Korean soldiers have been killed fighting in Ukraine.
Intelligence sources have said six officers from North Korea were killed with 20 soldiers close to Donetsk in a missile strike by Ukrainian forces on 3 October.
On Tuesday Seoul’s defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun said, “We assess that the occurrence of casualties among North Korean officers and soldiers in Ukraine is highly likely, considering various circumstances.”
South Korea has also said that Pyongyang has sent thousands of weapons and ammunition to Russia for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
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He added that North Korean casualties is “also likely to be true” on the Ukrainian frontlines.
Lt Gen Kyrylo Budanov, the Ukrainian chief of military intelligence, accused Pyongyang of “supplying crazy volumes of artillery shells that are critical for the Russian Federation.”
On Sunday the North Korean Foreign Ministry warned, If NATO continues to try hard to infringe upon the dignity, sovereignty, security and interests of the DPRK while persistently pursuing hostile policy towards it, NATO blindly following the US will be held wholly responsible for the tragic consequences to be entailed by it.”
In June Vladimir Putin and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a military pact similar to NATO’s Article 5.
Under the military pact both Moscow and Pyongyang will “provide military and other assistance without delay by all means at its disposal.”
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