North Korea suffers losses in the Kursk region
For the Koreans, it was not just the drones that were new, but also the landscape of the battlefield itself.
About 11 thousand DPRK military personnel, who belong to an elite special forces unit, are fighting on the side of Russia. But they suffer heavy losses due to their unpreparedness for the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield. The New York Times writes about this.
According to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, the troops deployed by North Korea in the Kursk region belong to the Storm special forces corps. These are one of the most well-trained and most highly indoctrinated North Korean military personnel. But they were ill-prepared for drone attacks and unfamiliar terrain far from their isolated homeland.
North Korean special forces were trained mainly to perform targeted “sniper” tasks…
