The new arrangement, aimed at rebuilding Kursk, is another avenue for North Korea to gain valuable experience and economic resources from Russia.

North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to the Kursk region in occupied Ukraine to aid the Russian military in reconstruction efforts. Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announced Tuesday that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has committed 6,

Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that North Korea would send a “division of builders, two military brigades of 5,000 people” and 1,000 deminers who would help Russia in the “rest