North Korean forces suffer several hundred casualties in Russia's Kursk, US official says
This comes amidst war blogger reports that the DPRK troops are drastically underprepared for official comabt.
North Korea has suffered "several hundred casualties" while fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region, a US military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Moscow Times on Tuesday.
The casualties reportedly included everything from "light wounds up to being KIA [killed in action]," the military official said, according to the report.
When asked about what ranks the North Korean casualties included, the anonymous official said it was from lower-level troops to "very near to the top."
Not battle-tested
"These are not battle-hardened troops. They haven't been in combat before," the official stated. The report attributed this lack of experience as a key reason why DPRK forces "have been suffering the casualties that they have at the hands of the Ukrainians."
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian military, Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed that North Korean soldiers were being heavily used in recent Russian operations in the Kursk region and that Russia was trying to conceal their losses.
North Korea has sent nearly 12,000 troops to aid Russia in its assault on Ukraine. There have been multiple reports that the DPRK troops are markedly unprepared to face frontline combat.
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