A contingent of approximately 12,000 North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia’s Kursk region may suffer complete casualties by mid-April.

As of today, there are 12,000 North Korean soldiers stationed in the Kursk region. At the current rate of casualties, the entire contingent could be killed or wounded in combat by mid-April 2025, reports the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint air drills among South Korea, the United States and Japan.

It was a month-long mission with one primary goal — capturing a North Korean soldier alive. One of the biggest obstacles facing the Ukrainian forces tasked with the objective while operating in Russia’s Kursk Oblast was overcoming the fanatical,