The confirmation followed a report from Ukraine's military-focused news outlet Militarnyi on Dec. 26, which first revealed the capture without specifying the date of the incident.

"Through various sources of information and intelligence, we assess that North Korean troops who have recently engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces have suffered around 1,100 casualties," the JCS said in a statement.

The North Korean army is one of the world’s largest.​ As it joins Russia’s war against Ukraine, its soldiers are paying a price for Kim Jong-un’s geopolitical maneuvers.

More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said yesterday. The new figure follows a report by Seoul’s spy agency to lawmakers last week, which said at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed since entering combat this month.

South Korea's spy agency said Friday it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia's war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine’s allies have called Pyongyang’s growing involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine a “dangerous expansion” of the conflict. Seoul’s military believes that North Korea was seeking to modernise its conventional warfare capabilities through ...

Pyongyang has deployed thousands of soldiers to reinforce Russian troops, including in the Kursk border region.

The development came days after Kyiv said about 3,000 North Koreans deployed to reinforce Russian troops had been ‘killed or wounded’ so far.

North Korea will unleash its "toughest" ever strategy to counter the United States, state media said Sunday, reporting on a key yearend party meeting presided by leader Kim Jong Un. The nuclear-armed state held a five-day party meeting last week as part of a drive to chart the country's course for 2025,

Russia and China, locked in separate disputes with the U.S., have repeatedly blocked U.S.-led pushes to levy more U.N. sanctions on North Korea despite its repeated missile tests in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

EU Ambassador to Korea Maria Castillo-Fernandez on Dec. 16 explains the development of Korea-EU relations at her embassy in Seoul's Jung-gu District. How do would you evaluate Korea-EU relations and what do you consider the major results of bilateral cooperation?