Russian President Vladimir Putin is thanking North Korean troops for fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region.

SEOUL, April 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's military delegation has left for Russia to attend an international event, the North ...

In March, South Korea’s military said North Korea sent about 3,000 additional troops to Russia earlier this year, after its soldiers deployed on the Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered heavy casualties.

Seoul, April 27 (IANS) Russia confirmed for the first time that North Korean troops have been deployed and are fighting ...

North Korea and Russia, locked in separate disputes with the U.S. and its allies, have moved significantly closer to each other in recent years. Beside its dispatch of troops, North Korea has been ...

The KCNA's two-sentence dispatch did not elaborate further ... Putin during his visit to Pyongyang in June last year. On Monday, North Korea officially confirmed that it had deployed troops ...

U.S., South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials have said North Korea dispatched about 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia last fall in its first participation in a major armed conflict since the ...

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo during a signing ceremony of a new partnership ... incursion last year. Ukrainian officials ...

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said leader Kim Jong Un decided to send combat troops to Russia under a mutual defense treaty. It cited Kim as saying that the troops’ deploy ...