North Korea has supplied Russia with weaponry and troops to bolster its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukrainian president did not say how many North Korean soldiers, sent to bolster Russian forces, have been killed or injured in combat.

Russia is treating North Korean troops well right now, Ukraine's Zelenskyy said, as it wants more to come fight, but they will become "cannon fodder."

Some of the North Korean soldiers deployed to fight for Russia have already been killed, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 1 without revealing their numbers.

North Korean troops in Russia face high casualties in combat, raising concerns they're being used as expendable resources.

A Kremlin "insider" has said that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, who has been giving soldiers to Mad Vlad, is now "disappointed" with how his military is being used

A U.S. State Department spokesperson reiterated Monday that North Korean troops in combat against Ukrainian forces are "legitimate" targets, amid news reports about troop casualties on the battlefield.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with Kyodo News, stated that North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia's Kursk region are becoming "cannon fodder." Even now, there are those among them who are killed and injured,