Report: North Korea Fighting to 'Quell Rumors' About Troop Deaths in Ukraine War

Report: North Korea Fighting to ‘Quell Rumors’ About Troop Deaths in Ukraine War


An anonymous North Korean military source claimed to the specialized outlet Daily NK on Thursday that the communist regime had adopted a policy of “strict secrecy” surrounding soldiers allegedly dying on the front lines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

North Korea, a close ally of Russia’s, has not confirmed formally any involvement in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Reports began surfacing in late October, however, that Pyongyang had sent as many as 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine. Both the governments of South Korea and the United States claim to have corroborated Ukrainian reports of North Koreans on the front lines.

The reports surfaced after Russian strongman Vladimir Putin visited Pyongyang this summer, his first stop in the

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