SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has supplied around 6.5 million artillery shells of various calibers to Russia to support its war with Ukraine, along with 600 missile launchers and weapons systems, a Ukrainian intelligence agency has said. The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU) disclosed the information Monday (local time) in response [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 600 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday, adding that more than 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been also wounded. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave the assessment during a closed-door briefing for the [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have additionally dispatched at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s military said Thursday. The assessment came amid concerns that North Korea and Russia’s deepening military alignment could lead to Moscow transferring advanced arms [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) said Wednesday it has hosted a forum themed on the reconstruction of Ukraine with business representatives from the Eastern European nation to strengthen bilateral ties in Kyiv’s postwar rebuilding efforts. The event was held Tuesday in Seoul in conjunction with a visit by [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has said he used jamming guns to neutralize Ukrainian drones, a South Korean lawmaker who recently met the soldier said Friday, in a rare glimpse into the North’s battlefield tactic to aid Moscow’s war against Kyiv. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine said that the North has military training camps that feature mockups of facilities and buildings in Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island, according to a South Korean lawmaker who recently met the soldier on Thursday. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 1,500 North Korean soldiers who were believed to be additionally deployed to Russia have been already on front lines to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker who recently visited Kyiv said Wednesday, citing Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier caught alive by Ukraine has told a South Korean lawmaker that he wants to go to South Korea, asking whether he could “live as I wish with the rights” he hoped for once in Seoul, according to the lawmaker Tuesday. Rep. Yu Yong-weon made the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have deployed additional troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, although the number of recently deployed troops is being assessed, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday. “Following about a monthlong lull, North Korean troops were placed back in the frontline region of Kursk starting in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine has expressed his wish to go to South Korea, a news report said Wednesday, in what would be the first known case for a North Korean captive to voice an intent to defect to the South. A North Korean [...]