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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that the troops he sent to fight Ukraine for Russian President Vladimir Putin have suffered losses en masse.

In a ceremony depicting the faces of 100 North Korean soldiers and attended by their family members, Kim honored the "heroic" soldiers while he hugged children and appeared tearful.

Kim first acknowledged that he sent thousands of troops to fight for Putin in Russia’s Kursk region in April before then acknowledging there had been some deaths in early July when he was shown mourning over coffins with North Korean flags draped over them.

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