Legionships say about 600 North Korea soldiers in the war in Ukraine. Russia-Ukraine, news war

South Korean lawmakers offer an update to the estimated losses after briefing by the country’s intelligence agency.

South Korean lawmakers said that about 600 North Korea soldiers fought in the Russian war in Ukraine.

Speaking after a closed briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Wednesday, Lee Seong Coyon and Kim Pyong Koy told reporters that an estimated 4,700 North Korean had been killed or injured so far in the war.

Lee and Kim, who participated in the presidency of the Intelligence Committee at the Legislative Authority, made their comments two days later Pyongyang emphasized For the first time, forces were sent to Russia to support the Moscow war.

In a report issued by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saying he had ordered the deployment of forces to “eliminate the Ukrainian Nazi occupiers and survey.”

The latest injuries numbers determine a great leap from NIS’s briefing in January, when the espionage agency reported that about 300 soldiers from North Korea were killed in the conflict.

In their briefing on the correspondents, Lee and Kim, members of the Power Party, told the Conservatives and the Liberal Democratic Party, respectively, that NIS estimated that Pyongyang had published about 15,000 soldiers in total.

Launders also said that Pyongyang had received technical assistance on spy satellites in exchange for its help, as well as drones, electronic warfare equipment and surface SA-22 missiles.

“After six months of participating in the war, the North Korean army became less insufficient, and its combat ability has improved significantly as he used to use new weapons such as drones,” Lee told reporters.