North Korea has slowly transitioned away from direct Soviet transfers in favor of domestic production, but Soviet DNA continues to permeate Pyongyang’s defense industry; for instance, their ...

“North Korea is now a more important ally for Russia than Iran or China,” said Oleg Ignatov, senior Russia analyst for Crisis Group.

North Korea's founding leader may never have secured power were it not for a Soviet propaganda campaign and crackdown that helped him trounce rivals after World War II, a historian says.

According to South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), South Korea and the US should investigate the effectiveness of the CTR program, implemented by the former Soviet Union in the early ...

North Korea later battled the South and its U.S. and United Nations allies to a stalemate in the 1950-1953 Korean War with extensive aid from China and the Soviet Union.

North Korea later battled the South and its U.S. and United Nations allies to a stalemate in the 1950-1953 Korean War with extensive aid from China and the Soviet Union.

In 1950, Soviet leader Josef Stalin persuaded China’s Mao Zedong to provide troops to North Korea for its invasion of South Korea. On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed ...

That's when Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and Kim Jong Un's grandfather, approached his key ally, the Soviet Union, for assistance in building a nuclear weapons program.

Following a brief diplomatic pall during the Khruschev period, Soviet military-technological transfers to North Korea resumed in full force over the mid-1960s and continued into the mid-1980’s ...