The losses of the DPRK army in the war against Ukraine are already several hundred killed, wounded, and missing, an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense tells LIGA.net. North Korean soldiers are still not ready for the Ukrainian war.

"People who grew up in an authoritarian state filled with tales of the 1950-1953 Korean War were suddenly forced far from home in the conditions of modern brutal high-tech warfare," the intelligence officer explains.

But it would be a mistake to assume that North Korea is not a capable adversary, Chun In-bum, a retired South Korean army lieutenant general and expert on Korean politics and military relations, tells LIGA.net.

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