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Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.
This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security.
I'm Toby Gillis, joined today by Alex Dibble.
The mystery surrounding North Korea's involvement in Russia's war with Ukraine is easing, with more details emerging.
If reports from South Korea are To be believed, 3,000 of an initial 11,000 North Korean fighters have now either died or been badly injured, and their fighting capability is rudimentary at best, with no understanding of how modern warfare works.
There are also claims that they've been told to kill themselves rather than be captured alive.
So how far can we trust these reports?
And if there is scant regard for their lives, how much of an impact can they even have on the war?
Our guest today is the Times is Asia editor Richard Lloyd Parry.
Richard, how is South Korea gleaning this intelligence?
Well, that's a very good question.
The origins and the quality of this information are not entirely clear.
We know members of the South Korean intelligence agency are in Ukraine helping the Ukrainians monitor the North Korean engagement with Russia and to interrogate these North Korean captives.
The three so far, one died and two more in the last few days have been displayed in videos and have survived.
So the Ukrainians and the South Koreans are working together.
One assumes that this information comes from Ukraine, from Ukrainian intelligence, from observations made on the battlefield.
But how accurate it is or how reliable it is is another question.
I mean, the Ukrainians, for example, have come up with rather specific figures that 300 North Koreans have been killed and 2,700 wounded.
How exactly they know that is unclear.