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An injured North Korean soldier has reportedly been captured by Ukrainian troops in the battlefield.
Our foreign affairs correspondent Bae Eun-ji has more.
This photo shared on social media shows a wounded soldier reportedly captured by Ukrainian forces, likely making him the first North Korean prisoner of war.
According to a Ukrainian media outlet on Friday, the soldier was captured by the country's Special Operations Forces.
The soldier appears to be injured, but it was not immediately known whether he received medical treatment.
In response to the media report, South Korea's National Intelligence Service confirmed Friday that a wounded North Korean soldier has indeed been captured alive by Ukrainian forces.
It said it was able to confirm this through a real-time information-sharing system, with intel agencies of South Korea's allies and added that it will continue to closely monitor the situation.
This comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this week that more than 3-thousand North Korean troops have been killed and wounded during battle.
Kyiv had previously announced that Pyongyang had sent around 10 to 12 thousand soldiers to fight alongside Russian forces.
If the Ukrainian leader's claims are correct that means at least a quarter of North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed or injured.
"There are already over three thousand wounded and killed North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region. Russia is simply disposing of them in assaults."
Separately, Ukraine's military said it found a diary of a dead North Korean soldier, that describes tactics for shooting down Ukrainian drones.
The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine posted a picture of the diary on its social media on Thursday, which includes diagrams and a memo of how they should move in a group of three to lure and destroy the unmanned weapons.
The special forces said it deemed the method as using "living human bait."
As the war in Ukraine nears almost three years, the Ukrainian military recently released video footage of its forces killing North Korean soldiers with drones on the frontlines in the Kursk region, apparently showing that North Korean soldiers are ill-prepared for modern warfare.
Bae Eun-ji, Arirang News.
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2024-12-27, 17:00 (KST)
