North Korea troops make humiliating retreat from Kursk

Volodymyr Zelenskyyukrainian President

New assaults took place in the areas of the Kursk operation—the Russian army with North Korean soldiers brought in again. A significant number of occupiers have been eliminated, we're talking hundreds of Russian and North Korean servicemen."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his Friday evening address

A total of 60,000 Russian troops in Kursk Oblast are 60,000 that have not replenished the already significant occupier's forces in Pokrovsk and other sectors in our Donetsk Oblast,

he said

Their militarization means they have valuable things to contribute for the kind of attritional warfare that Russia is mired in—namely quantity rather than quality of personnel and equipment,

Spurling said

Both Russia and North Korea have more to gain than lose from their relationship in the current moment."

Spurling added

The North Korean litmus test is much more aimed at what they're getting from Russia, rather than how effective they are actually fighting Ukrainians,

Ramani said

We can see that in how they're directly contributing ground forces in a way that no other state is, on either side of the war,

Spurling told Newsweek

The way that unravelled stung the North Koreans,

Ramani said

North Korea likely sees little risk in its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

said Bryden Spurling, a senior research leader in defense and security with the Rand Corporation think tank's European arm

The new U.S. administration's hegemony-seeking attempt to maintain its military supremacy and stifle independent and sovereign states through reckless arms buildup has been clearly manifested from the first day of its office,

the foreign ministry said

Sometimes you have to walk."

Trump strode out of a summit in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, in 2019 without an agreement, and declared

I still think that North Korea's very skeptical and cautious about the United States,

said Yeo, particularly looking beyond the next four years into how contact would work with future administrations

It's more [that] there might be some shift on the tactical front and on the battlefield,

he told Newsweek

Kim Jong Unnorth korean leader

I think he misses me,

Trump said of Kim in July last year

Rubio's coarse and nonsensical remarks only show directly the incorrect view of the new U.S. administration on the DPRK and will never help promote the U.S. interests as he wishes,

the country's foreign ministry said, referring to North Korea by its official title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The casualty rates were significant,

Jones said during a podcast appearance, ... according to the Yonhap news agency

Volodymyr Zelenskyyukrainian President

The enemy lost key officers from Russia and North Korea … I think we are talking about dozens of officers,

Zelenskyy told the AP

The roughly 100-square-kilometre (29-square-mile) decrease in seized territory between December 2024 and January 2025, coupled with a similar monthly casualty rate, indicates that Russian forces are taking the same high level of losses despite achieving fewer territorial advances in the near term,

said the ISW

Since mid-January, there have been no signs showing North Korean troops deployed to the Russian Kursk region engaging in battle,

the NIS said on Tuesday

In January of this year alone, our soldiers neutralised more than 15,000 invaders [in Pokrovsk], of which about 7,000 were killed,

Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said on Saturday

We need to do this to launch the rotation mechanism,

an unnamed source told UP