{"id":407035,"date":"2025-04-30T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=407035"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:08:28","slug":"600-n-korean-soldiers-killed-fighting-for-russia-seoul-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/04\/30\/407035.html","title":{"rendered":"600 N. Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia: Seoul lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEOUL (AFP\/RSS)<\/strong>: Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said Wednesday, after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, North Korean troop casualties are estimated at around 4,700, including approximately 600 deaths,&#8221; MP Lee Seong-kweun, a member of parliament&#8217;s intelligence committee, told reporters after a briefing by the country&#8217;s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea confirmed for the first time Monday that it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA reporting Pyongyang&#8217;s soldiers helped Moscow reclaim territory under Ukrainian control in the Russian border region of Kursk.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow had separately confirmed the North&#8217;s participation, after months of official silence from both countries, even as Seoul and Washington accused Pyongyang of sending ever more troops and weapons to help.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2,000 soldiers have been taken back to nuclear-armed North Korea this year, Lee said, and were now reportedly being held in isolation in Pyongyang and at other locations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is understood that the bodies of fallen soldiers were cremated locally in Kursk before being transported,&#8221; back to the North, he added.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea &#8220;supported Russia&#8217;s recapture of Kursk by deploying 18,000 troops in two phases,&#8221; Lee said, adding that the number of clashes in the area had decreased since around March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (AFP\/RSS): Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said Wednesday, after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow. &#8220;So far, North Korean troop casualties are estimated at around 4,700, including approximately 600 deaths,&#8221; MP Lee Seong-kweun, a member of parliament&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":341696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-407035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407036,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407035\/revisions\/407036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407035"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=407035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}