{"id":69342,"date":"2025-02-07T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/russia-withdraws-north-korea-troops-kursk-deaths-ukraine-war"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T05:05:48","slug":"russia-withdraws-north-korean-troops-in-kursk-after-losses-seoul-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69342","title":{"rendered":"Russia withdraws North Korean troops in Kursk after losses, Seoul says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service confirms reports that Kim Jong-un\u2019s battered forces have been off the frontline since mid-January<\/p>\n<p>North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russia in its war against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> have not been seen in battle for several weeks, raising speculation that they have been withdrawn after suffering heavy losses, according to South Korea\u2019s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>The National Intelligence Service in Seoul this week confirmed media reports that North Korean troops had been pulled from the frontline around the middle of January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/russia-withdraws-north-korea-troops-kursk-deaths-ukraine-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service confirms reports that Kim Jong-un\u2019s battered forces have been off the frontline since mid-JanuaryNorth Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russia in its war against Ukraine have not been seen in battle for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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-69342","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\/69342","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69343,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69342\/revisions\/69343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}