The North Korean losses amount to almost 10 percent of the country’s deployment to Russia, the Biden administration said.

North Korea demonstrated this year that it could produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a matter of months, the head of a research organization that traces weapons used in the war said Wednesday.

Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s war effort, including to the Kursk border region. Read more at straitstimes.com.