Suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will receive a scheduled pay rise, official documents showed on Monday, despite an impeachment trial and investigation into his ill-fated martial law declaration.

North Korean troop fatalities and injuries in Ukraine have likely exceeded 3,000, including about 300 deaths and 2,700 injuries, a South Korean lawmaker briefed by the country's spy agency said on Monday.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) informed lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian troops in the Kursk border region have not expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.