North Korea will send 6,000 military workers and combat engineers to help rebuild Russia's Kursk region, Moscow's top security official said, in the latest show of growing ties between the two countries.

North Korea is reportedly preparing to send another 5,000 personnel to Russia, including two military brigades, construction workers, and 1,000 demining experts for the Kursk region. -This deepens a military alliance that has already seen an estimated 6,

Kim Jong-un agrees to dispatch construction brigades and combat engineers to Kursk, site of recent joint North Korean-Russian military operations