Thousands of North Korean laborers are already toiling in Russia. A new contingent is headed to the region where North Korean troops fought Ukraine.

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,

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba discussed Russia’s cooperation with North Korea and Iran, which poses a real threat not only to Europe but to the entire world,