The new arrangement, aimed at rebuilding Kursk, is another avenue for North Korea to gain valuable experience and economic resources from Russia.

North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to the Kursk region in occupied Ukraine to aid the Russian military in reconstruction efforts. Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announced Tuesday that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has committed 6,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to keep building a more modern navy fleet to enhance the country's maritime power as he attended the launching ceremony for a warship that was repaired after its earlier failed launch,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Tuesday and discussed a "special military operation" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine,

Russia's Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (not pictured) in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 4, 2025, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency.