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 ...

"We now assess that North Korean forces are conducting massed — massed, dismounted assaults against Ukrainian positions in Kursk," White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on ...

North Korean soldiers sent to aid Russia in its fight against Ukraine are dying in droves and some of them have even chosen suicide over surrender, according to officials. More than 1,000 North ...

The country said North Korea can “never be recognized as a nuclear-armed state,” NBC News reported. President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean ...

White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby said Russia was treating North Korean troops as “expendable” by sending them on impractical ground operations in its war against ...

South Korea's military said on Friday that it suspects North Korea is preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, even after suffering losses and seeing some of its soldiers ...

Ukraine releases video of what it says are two North Korean soldiers who were captured near Kursk © 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC ...

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All of North Korea's troops in Kursk could get wiped out by April, given current losses, a think tank said. Analysts cited casualty reports from Ukraine and South Korea, estimating 92 losses per day ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met South Korea’s acting leader Choi Sang-mok in Seoul on Monday ...

White House spokesman John Kirby claims that North Korean troops have been treated as “expendable” by the Russians and been forced to carry out “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses.