N. Korean troops slaughtered in ‘hopeless’ Ukraine assaults: US

AFP | Washington

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A “human wave” of North Korean soldiers fighting on Russia’s side in the Ukraine war are being sent to their deaths in futile attacks by generals who see them as “expendable,” the White House said yesterday.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed South Korean estimates of around 1,000 of Pyongyang’s troops killed or wounded in just a week in the Kursk border region, where Ukraine mounted a shock incursion in August.

Terrified troops sent by Pyongyang to boost Russia’s invasion of its Western-friendly neighbor are committing suicide rather than risking capture, Kirby told reporters.