The South Korean government plans to consult with Ukraine about bringing North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine to the South if they request defection, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Foreign ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong made the remarks during a regular press briefing following

South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.

Casualties among North Koreans assisting Russia ‘have surpassed 3,000’, according to South Korea’s intelligence agency.

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is prepared to hand over captured North Korean soldiers in exchange for Ukrainian captives in Russia, a day after revealing the country's seizure of two wounded North Korean soldiers.

At least 300 North Korean soldiers were killed in combat with Ukraine, South Korea claimed on Monday. Some 2,700 others were injured, the South Korean National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, according to the Seoul-based Yonhap News.

The soldiers, reportedly from North Korea's elite Storm Corps, have apparently been ordered to kill themselves rather than be taken prisoner.

The soldier claimed he was alone on the battlefield for three-to-five days before Ukrainian forces found him and gave him "an injection of some kind".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has shared a new video in which one of two North Korean prisoners of war shares his remarkable experiences at the front in the service of Russia. “Communication between the captured North Korean soldiers and Ukrainian investigators continues,