Fox News: Ukraine has captured 2 North Korean soldiers, South Korea's intelligence service says

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Ukraine has captured 2 North Korean soldiers, South Korea's intelligence service says

Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers who were fighting on behalf of Russia in a Russian border region, South Korea's intelligence service said....                        ...                        ...                            ...Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers who were fighting on behalf of Russia in a Russian border region, South Korea's intelligence service said, confirming an account from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Saturday.......Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login it has "confirmed that the Ukrainian military captured two North Korean soldiers on January 9 in the Kursk battlefield in Russia."......The confirmation comes after Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that the two captured North Korean soldiers were wounded and taken to Kyiv, where they are communicating with Ukrainian security services SBU.......SBU released video that appears to show the two prisoners on beds inside jail cells. The authenticity of the video could not be independently verified.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......A doctor interviewed in the SBU video said one soldier suffered a facial wound while the other soldier had an open wound and a lower leg fracture. Both men were receiving medical treatment.......SBU also said one of the soldiers had no documents at all, while the other had been carrying a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login card in the name of a man from Tuva, a Russian region bordering Mongolia.......Ukraine's military says North Korean soldiers are outfitted in Russian military uniforms and carry fake military IDs in their pockets, a scheme that Andrii Yusov, spokesperson for Ukraine's military intelligence agency, says could mean Moscow and "its representatives at the U.N. can deny the facts."......Despite Ukrainian, U.S. and South Korean assertions that Pyongyang has sent 10,000 – 12,000 troops to fight alongside Russia in the Kursk border region, Moscow has never publicly acknowledged the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......While reports of their presence first emerged in October, Ukrainian troops only confirmed engagement on the ground in December.......On Thursday, Zelenskyy put the number of killed or wounded North Koreans at 4,000, though U.S. estimates are lower, at around 1,200.......Despite North Korea's suffering losses and initial inexperience on the battlefield, Ukrainian soldiers, military intelligence and experts suggest first-hand experience will only help them develop further as a fighting force......."For the first time in decades, the North Korean army is gaining real military experience," Yusov said. "This is a global challenge — not just for Ukraine and Europe, but for the entire world."......The Associated Press contributed to this report....

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