Moscow's battlefield strategy claims more lives as North Korea's elite troops endure heavy losses.

North Korean soldiers are capable, incredibly disciplined, and willing to die before they're captured. But they're also new ...

knowing he would face torture, imprisonment and possible execution if he had to return to the North Korean side. Daily NK, in an extraordinary exchange conducted via highly secret mobile phone links, ...

According to the BBC, 4,000 of the 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia have been killed, wounded, are missing, or have been captured. "They are cannon fodder, and the Russian officers care even ...

North Korean conscripted soldiers endure brutal conditions, grappling with severe shortages of essentials — from bullets for ...

Unfamiliar terrain, outdated equipment and poor tactics have likely felled thousands of soldiers, but more may return with ...