Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced at a press conference that multiple soldiers from the Korean People's Army (KPA) were captured in the Kursk region. Zelensky stated that the wounded soldiers died from their injuries. This would mark the first known instance of a KPA soldier being taken prisoner since North Korea's involvement in the conflict. South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed the capture of a wounded North Korean soldier.
announced at a Friday press conference that multiple soldiers from the Korean People’s Army, or KPA , were captured in the Kursk region but said the wounded combatants had died of their injuries.
He continued, “Everything is being done to make it impossible for us to capture Koreans. The Russians send them on assaults so that they have minimal protection.” North Korea is believed to have ordered approximately 11,000 members of its KPA to be deployed to the Kursk region of Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine.nor Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed the KPA deployments, but Russian state media writers have celebrated their entry into the conflict as a triumph of international comradery.
This may have changed over the last few weeks, as the United States and Ukraine have confirmed a sharp uptick in North Korean combatants.
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