South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that thousands of North Korean workers arrived in Russia in 2024 for construction jobs, according to Yonhap News Agency

The country's invasion of Ukraine is set to drag into its third year, and officials are having to "offset the resource shortages constraining Russia's economy and war effort", experts say

The Russian soldiers would be treated in North Korean medical facilities, said Matsegora, Moscow's longtime diplomat to Pyongyang.

Russia's war in Ukraine has turned into a brutal war of attrition, claiming thousands of lives among both regular and allied forces. Recently, elite North Korean units became the latest to suffer catastrophic losses in this grinding conflict.

Thousands of North Korean workers have arrived in Russia in 2024 to take jobs in the construction sector, according to a report from South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).