Ukrainian special operations capture a ‘wounded North Korean soldier’ – London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Ukrainian forces have captured their first North Korean soldier in the Kursk Oblast region, South Korean intelligence have confirmed.

Yonhap reported, citing the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Friday that Ukrainian special operations captured a wounded North Korean soldier.

The NIS said, “Through real-time information sharing with a friendly nation’s intelligence organization, (we) confirmed the capture of a wounded North Korean soldier and plan to thoroughly examine the subsequent development.”

Yonhap reported, South Korea’s spy agency later said, citing intelligence from a “friendly country” that the soldier had died from worsening wounds after being captured for Ukrainian forces.

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The South Korean spy agency said, “We confirmed through a friendly nation’s intelligence organization that a North Korean solider, captured alive on Dec. 26, died a short while ago as (his) wounds worsened.”

Earlier this week President Volodymyr Zelensky said that more than 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed in the Kursk Oblast region.

President Zelensky warned that North Korea sending more troops to Russia to fight Valdimir Putin’s war in Ukraine threatens to destabilise the Korean Peninsula and the region.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that Pyongyang is preparing to supply Moscow with more arms and to date around 20,000 containers has been sent to Russia, satellite imagery shows.

Pyongyang preparing to send more troops to Russia and the WSJ was told by officials in Seoul, South Korea that North Korea is running at full capacity producing weapons and Russia is sending fuel and equipment to Kim Jong-Un to help with their arms production.

An analyst told the WSJ that Jong-Un has received around $5.5 billion and satellite imagery shows that factories in North Korea are being expanded.