"So they are trying to attract troops from North Korea there." A map from the Institute for the Study of tracking daily changes to the front lines. Russia has advanced into the area known as Ukraine's salient into the Kursk region, the think tank said on...

Ukraine has been hit by a surge in Russian ballistic missile attacks, about a third of which used North Korean weapons that can only fly because they run on Western circuitry, obtained despite sanctions,

North Korea’s decision to send troops to support Russia in the Ukraine war is rooted in pragmatic and geopolitical factors. Pyongyang seeks to secure much-needed oil and gas from Moscow, circumventing international sanctions.