{"id":68381,"date":"2024-12-18T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/17\/several-hundred-north-korean-troops-killed-fighting-ukraine-says-us-official"},"modified":"2024-12-18T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:08:41","slug":"several-hundred-north-korean-troops-killed-fighting-ukraine-says-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68381","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Several hundred\u2019 North Korean troops killed fighting Ukraine, says US official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018All ranks\u2019 among casualties in Kursk after Pyongyang sent thousands of soldiers to reinforce Russia\u2019s war effort<\/p>\n<p>North Korean forces have suffered \u201cseveral hundred\u201d casualties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/first-reported-deaths-of-north-korean-soldiers-fighting-against-ukraine\">fighting against Ukrainian troops in Russia\u2019s Kursk region<\/a>, according to a senior US military official.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce Russia\u2019s war effort, including to the Kursk border region, where Ukrainian forces seized territory earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/17\/several-hundred-north-korean-troops-killed-fighting-ukraine-says-us-official\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018All ranks\u2019 among casualties in Kursk after Pyongyang sent thousands of soldiers to reinforce Russia\u2019s war effortNorth Korean forces have suffered \u201cseveral hundred\u201d casualties fighting against Ukrainian troops in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, according to a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,40,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68381\/revisions\/68411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}