North Korea has confirmed for the first time it deployed troops to fight for Russia in the war with Ukraine, according to state media. KCNA reported its troops made an "important contribution" to expelling Ukrainian forces from Russian territory, presumably Kursk. Kim Jong Un made the decision...
"The constant accumulation of assault groups by the personnel of the DPRK army in the Kursk region indicates that Moscow does not want to lose the pace of offensive actions," the GUR added, using an acronym for the country's official ...
The SBU said the North Koreans had been transferred to Kyiv for questioning, and that because they could not speak Ukrainian, Russian or English, their questioning was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea's NIS intelligence agency. ...
A senior U.S. military official says a couple hundred North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine have been killed or wounded in battle in the Kursk border region.
“So unfortunate, that’s all I can say,” North Korean defector Lee Cheol-eun said with a grimace after watching footage of North Korean soldiers fighting in Kursk, Russia, against the Ukrainian forces. The 37-year-old served in the Korea People’s Army security departmen...
Ukraine had previously said it captured North Korean soldiers in combat, but that they had been badly wounded and died shortly afterward. – Reuters (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2025 Ukraine CrisisNorth KoreaRussiaVolodymyr Zelenskiy IN THIS SECTION ...
According to Ukrainian and allied assessments, North Korea has sent around 12,000 troops to Russia. Some of them have been deployed for combat in Russia's Kursk region, where Ukraine still holds a chunk of land after a major cross-border incursion in August. ...
Ukrainian and Western assessments say that some 11,000 North Korean troops are deployed in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces occupy swathes of territory after staging the cross-border incursion in August last year. Speaking on Monday, Blinken said more than 1,000 North Korean forces wer...
as the Pentagon said most of the North Korean troops sent to helpMoscow's war effortwere fighting to drive Ukraine's army off Russian soil in the Kursk border region. South Korea's spy agency also saidNorth Korean troops were "engaging in combat"in the Kursk region, hours after the U.S...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said forces operating in the Kursk region of Russia have captured two North Korean soldiers.