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UKRAINE: South Korea NIS-North Korea To Send 12k Troops To Ukraine: Yonhap

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South Korea's Yonhap News is reporting that according to the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) North Korea is preparing to participate in the war in Ukraine with the potential dispatch of 12,000 troops from the country's special forces to fight on the frontlines on Russia's behalf. Such a deployment would exceed the 10,000 figure stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his press conference at NATO HQ on 17 Oct, a number that was viewed initially as somewhat hyperbolic but could now prove to be underestimating the situation. 

  • While yet to be confirmed such a sizable contribution of frontline troops would garner significant focus not only in Kyiv, but its allies in Europe and the US. An earlier report had comments from South Korean Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho indicating that North Korean support could be civilian in nature rather than frontline troops, but the latest headline from the NIS would counteract that claim.
  • As Sky News notes, "Western officials claim that the daily casualty rate in September for Russian military personnel - killed and injured in Ukraine - is 1,271. That level of attrition means even thousands of North Korean troops equate to "not many days of casualties that is sort of plugging the gap", a Western official told a briefing of journalists."
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South Korea's Yonhap News is reporting that according to the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) North Korea is preparing to participate in the war in Ukraine with the potential dispatch of 12,000 troops from the country's special forces to fight on the frontlines on Russia's behalf. Such a deployment would exceed the 10,000 figure stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his press conference at NATO HQ on 17 Oct, a number that was viewed initially as somewhat hyperbolic but could now prove to be underestimating the situation. 

  • While yet to be confirmed such a sizable contribution of frontline troops would garner significant focus not only in Kyiv, but its allies in Europe and the US. An earlier report had comments from South Korean Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho indicating that North Korean support could be civilian in nature rather than frontline troops, but the latest headline from the NIS would counteract that claim.
  • As Sky News notes, "Western officials claim that the daily casualty rate in September for Russian military personnel - killed and injured in Ukraine - is 1,271. That level of attrition means even thousands of North Korean troops equate to "not many days of casualties that is sort of plugging the gap", a Western official told a briefing of journalists."