Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has confirmed the deployment of troops from North Korea to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces.

Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the United Nations Security Council learned last week.

These days Russia and North Korea are writing a new battlefield history together. North Korea has dispatched some 12,000 troops to fight in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The soldiers are believed to be some of North Korea’s most elite,

According to the SBU, the soldier said he had been issued the document in Russia last autumn. He also said that some of North Korea’s combat units had just one week of training with Russian troops. The other captive had no documents, the SBU said.

North Korean troops have suffered thousands of casualties in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Ukrainian estimates

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday Kyiv is ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to their leader Kim Jong Un if he can facilitate their exchange for Ukrainians held captive in Russia.

Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the United Nations Security Council learned last week. North Korea launched ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul holds a telephone conversation on Jan. 22 with High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas.

Civic groups advocating human rights in North Korea sent an open letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, urging him not to repatriate North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine while fighting for Russia.

Rupert Murdoch’s media group formally apologized to Prince Harry as part of a multimillion dollar settlement deal over a phone-hacking scandal. The 11th-hour deal avoided what would have been weeks of damaging testimony in a trial that was just about to begin.