Taejun Kang
Russia will pay North Korean troops about US$2,000 per month each, South Korea’s spy agency said on Wednesday, as the United States announced there was evidence that the troops were in Russia.
The salary paid by Moscow would represent an enormous increase. Last month, RFA Korean reported that the average salary for military personnel had increased 10-fold from between 100 and 300 won (.6 cents to 1.8 cents) to between 1,000 and 3,000 won (6 cents to 18 cents).
The Ukrainian government-run news platform United24 reported that it was likely that most of the money would “remain with the state.”
North Korea typically keeps most of the salaries paid to the workers it dispatches overseas, but it was not immediately clear how much of the $2,000 each soldier would actually receive.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, or NIS, said that more than 3,000 North Korean troops had been sent to Russia, with the total expected to reach 10,000 by December.
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