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[Column] What happened to all those North Korean soldiers fighting Ukraine?
A self-propelled howitzer operated by Ukraine fires toward Russian forces on the front line of the war in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Jan. 24, 2025. (AP/Yonhap) With North Korean soldiers deployed to Russia’s Kursk region nowhere to be found since mid-January …