The UK media has gone right over the edge:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87djeezjxeo
Western officials have told the BBC that North Korean troops have already suffered nearly 40% casualties in the fighting in Russia's western Kursk region, in just three months.
The officials, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, said that out of the estimated 11,000 troops sent from North Korea, known as DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), 4,000 were battle casualties.
That term comprises those killed, wounded, missing or captured. Of the 4,000, the officials said around 1,000 are believed to have been killed by mid-January.
These losses, if confirmed, are unsustainable by the North Koreans.
It must be true because an 'expert says so:
"These are barely trained troops led by Russian officers who they don't understand," says the former British Army tank commander, Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
"Quite frankly they don't stand a chance. They are being thrown into the meat grinder with little chance of survival. They are cannon fodder, and the Russian officers care even less for them than they do for their own men."
This is an earlier Jan 2023 prediction the same expert:
"A UK Challenger tanks will take several hits from a T-72 one hit from a Challenger on a T-72 destroys it." Russia has no capability to conduct modern manoeuvre warfare especially in the face of Western tanks, former tank officer Hamish De Bretton Gordon tells #timesradio.
Way to go Hamish!