North Korea will station a new military contingent in Russia until mid-March 2025.
The new deployment of the North Korean military will maintain the current pace of infantry attacks in the Kursk region, but the new groups of North Korean soldiers will suffer the least losses, which may reach 30 to 45 thousand dead and wounded per month- month. This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
It was learned that North Korea will assign a new military contingent to Russia until mid-March 2025.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on January 22 that a senior US defense official said additional North Korean forces would arrive in Russia “within the next two months” (by mid-March 2025). However, the NYT did not specify the number of troops or whether North Korea is rotating forces or increasing the size of its total force in Russia.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said on December 23 that North Korea may be preparing to deploy an unspecified number of additional forces to Ukraine and military equipment to Russia, either through rotation or additional deployments.
“The entire North Korean contingent in Russia could be killed or wounded in combat before about mid-April 2025 at the current rate of casualties, and the new deployments of North Korean troops – whether to reinforce the current force or rotate existing ones forces – were probably intended to support the pace of Russian operations, despite heavy losses, amounting to 30,000 to 45,000 people (killed and wounded combined). monthly,” analysts said. ISW.
North Korean troops are known to have trained in eastern Russia for at least a month before deploying to the Kursk region for additional close-quarters training in November 2024 and joining combat at least as early as December 2024.
This timeline is roughly consistent with the possibility that a new batch of North Korean troops could be trained to replace the dwindling force in the Kursk region by mid-April 2025, assuming the next batch of North Korean troops will train for the same amount of time as their predecessors and will be deployed to Russia in late January or early February 2025.
These new North Korean forces are unlikely to significantly improve Russian operations and will likely face the same high casualties and complications when engaging Russian forces as the current North Korean contingent, provided that the Russian command continues to use North Korean troops in the same way as it has been doing until now,” ISW said in a statement.
Let’s recall that the US Department of Defense stated that they do not see significant effectiveness in the participation of the North Korean military in the battles against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. North Korean forces will suffer heavy losses.
ISW announced the time of the destruction of all DPRK troops in the Kursk region
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