About 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 those troops have been killed or injured.

That's what the West has learned watching Kim Jong Un's army in action after Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the North Korean leader to supply fighters for his war on Ukraine.

These are the brutal and near-suicidal tactics of North Korean soldiers, who have, since November, been deployed to repel Ukraine’s incursion in the southern Russian border region of Kursk.

Defectors in Seoul share sentiments about North Korean soldiers in Russia. SEOUL -- Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

Among them, they found one soldier was still alive. But as Ukrainian soldiers approached him, the lone North Korean detonated his own grenade, blowing himself up to avoid being captured ...

Ukraine has found “irrefutable evidence” of North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against his country, president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week as he announced the capture of two North Korean ...

SEOUL -- North Korean soldiers deployed to fight against Ukraine have been instructed to take their own lives to avoid capture, according to an assessment by South Korea's spy agency. South Korea ...

Ukrainian forces captured two North Korean soldiers fighting with Russia's army, alive but wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. It marks the first time Ukraine said it ...

North Korean regular troops entered the war on Russia's side in October, according to Kyiv and its western allies, who initially estimated their numbers at 10,000 or more. In a post on X ...

Ukrainian forces fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast captured two North Korean soldiers, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Jan. 11, "irrefutable evidence" of Pyongyang's involvement in ...