North Korea has begun construction of a War Memorial Museum in Pyongyang to commemorate its military’s overseas operations, particularly in Russia’s Kursk region.
According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong-un attended the opening ceremony of the museum, which is dedicated to “the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Republic who performed glorious military feats and services in the military operations to liberate the Kursk region of the fraternal Russian Federation at the cost of their blood and lives.”
Recall that Pyongyang secretly deployed an estimated 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia in 2024 to help the Kremlin’s forces recapture about 1,000 square kilometers of territory captured by the Ukrainian army.
Volodymyr Zelensky had previously estimated that about 4,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded, while US officials gave a lower figure of about 1,200.
