
THE INDEPENDENT | Published January 12, 2025
North Korea ‘significantly benefiting’ from war experience in Ukraine, US ambassador to UN, Dorothy Camille Shea said
South Korean intelligence officials say they are helping Ukraine question two captured North Korean soldiers, a development that is being seen as “irrefutable evidence” of Pyongyang’s involvement in the Russian invasion.
Both soldiers were captured on 9 January in the Russian border region of Kursk.
Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement that it is cooperating with Ukrainian intelligence as the North Korean soldiers do not speak English, Russian, or Ukrainian.
The Ukrainian security service said one of the soldiers had fake Russian identification documents and the other had none at all.
One of the soldiers received military training from Russian troops upon arriving there in November, NIS said.
Russia has neither confirmed nor denied the use of North Korean soldiers in Kursk, where Russia is dealing with a Ukrainian counterattack that has seen Kyiv capture a swathe of territory.
The US ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Camille Shea, warned last week that North Korea “is significantly benefiting” from the experience, making it more capable of waging war against its neighbours.
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SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk
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Screenshot from a video of what is said to be two North Korean soldiers being arrested in Russia’s Kursk region, 11 January, 2025Screenshot from AP video 4546332
EURONEWS | Published January 12, 2025
A spokesperson for the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has said the arrest of two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region is “indisputable evidence” of Pyongyang’s involvement in the war.
The two unnamed men were captured by Ukrainian forces and have since reportedly been sent to Kyiv for questioning.
“They are held in proper conditions that meet the requirements of international law. The prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English or Russian, so communication with them takes place through Korean interpreters in cooperation with South Korean NIS. At the time of his capture, one of the foreigners had a Russian military ID card issued in the name of another person registered in the Republic of Tuva,” said Artem Dekhtyarenko.
He also said that both men were receiving “full medical care”.
In his nightly video address, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the two North Koreans are being questioned by investigators with the help of Korean translators.
Zelenskyy said their capture was “not easy”, claiming that Russian and North Korean forces have tried to conceal the presence of North Korean soldiers on the battlefield, including by killing wounded comrades to avoid their capture and interrogation by Kyiv.
“Both are alive and have already been brought to Kyiv. Now these two are…talking to SSU investigators,” he said.
Zelenskyy went on to say their presence is proof of Russia, “doing everything to prolong and escalate the war.”
There has been no comment from Pyongyang about the capture of the two soldiers but North Korea hasn’t publicly confirmed it has sent troops to support Russia’s war effort.
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SOURCE: www.euronews.com
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