North Korean troops have likely suffered losses in Kursk due to inexperience and issues with Russian forces, but could learn to adapt, experts said.

Pyongyang claimed on Thursday that its alliance with Russia was ‘normal’ and ‘very effective’, despite international alarm about the deployment of North Korean troops to the war in Ukraine

Losses ‘caused by lack of experience’ but Kim Jong-un may dispatch country’s special operations force to help Russia

Pyongyang's troops fighting alongside Vladimir Putin's forces in Russia's Kursk region are being killed and injured according to the U.S.

The figures mark the first significant U.S. assessment of North Korean losses since their deployment to aid Russia's war effort.

Russia is "irrefutably" using North Korean missiles in Ukraine, according to the independent organization Conflict Armament Research (CAR).

At least 100 North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed with another 1,000 injured in combat against Ukrainian forces in intense fighting in the Kursk region, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday citing the country's spy agency.

Ukraine claimed over the weekend that North Korean troops accidentally shot at Russian vehicles in a "friendly fire" incident that left eight dead.

Possible technological transfers from Moscow to Pyongyang are a concern fo Seoul and Tokyo, while Beijing juggles its interests to remain equidistant

The United States believes North Korea has suffered "several hundred" troop casualties during combat alongside Russian forces against Ukraine, a Pentagon spokesperson said Thursday, noting that the figure could go up.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency is claiming that around 30 North Korean troops were killed or wounded in fighting against the Ukrainian army at the weekend in Russia’s Kursk border region.