North Korea

According to a military statement cited by Russian state news media, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov landed in North Korea on Friday. Belousov would speak with many North Korean “military and military-political officials” during his formal...

North Korea has ratified a landmark defence pact with Russia, state media reported Tuesday, deepening security cooperation that has seen Pyongyang send thousands of troops to help Moscow fight Ukraine. The agreement formalises months of tightening...

North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul’s military said, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea. The alleged jamming comes a week after the...

Seoul said Tuesday that the speeding deployment presented a “significant security threat.” Washington said North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to train in Russia and will probably fight Ukraine in weeks. Pyongyang is accused of deploying...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for international pressure on the Kremlin and Pyongyang on Friday, claiming that Russia may deploy North Korean forces into combat as early as Sunday. The Ukrainian leader called for “tangible pressure”...

North Korean forces are in Russia ahead of their potential deployment in Ukraine, Japan said Friday, citing “serious concern” over the reports. “The Japanese government is… monitoring the deployment of soldiers by North Korea to Russia...

Authorities announced Thursday that a North Korean balloon carrying rubbish had landed on Seoul’s presidential palace; local media said that the balloon contained propaganda leaflets mocking President Yoon Suk Yeol and his spouse. For a long...

North Korea released photos of the drone, which some analysts verified was South Korean, and declared on Saturday that it had found the wreckage of at least one downed South Korean military drone in Pyongyang. Recently,...

has decided to send “large-scale troops” to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Friday, citing Seoul’s spy agency. “The National Intelligence Service said it has learned that the North...

Following Pyongyang’s accusation that Seoul’s military was using drones to enter its airspace, North Korea said on Wednesday that over a million young people had enlisted in or returned to the army this week. On Tuesday,...