North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send thousands of troops to fight alongside Russia will net him up to $25 million a month – but some sources say the soldiers may be quickly getting wiped out.

Kim Jong Un's elite soldiers are almost certainly facing annhilation on the Russia-Ukraine battlefield, experts say.The North Korean leader has deployedabout 12,000 elite soldiers to a zone referred to as the "meat grinder" given the high casualties,

North Korean troops have begun engaging in combat operations alongside Russian forces, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, expressing concern that Russia had turned to North Korea for soldiers to fight in its war with Ukraine.

"Today I can confirm that over 10,000 (North Korean) soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to the far western Kursk Oblast, where they have begun engaging in combat operations with Russian forces,