A White House spokesperson said at the time that Russian and North Korean military leaders saw the troops as "expendable" and were sending them on "hopeless assaults" against Ukrainian defenses.

Photo by Contributor/Getty Images However, Lieutenant General Kyrylo ... hundreds of Russian and North Korean servicemen." U.S. President Donald Trump's return to the White House has amplified ...

"The worst problem we are facing is the one coming from North Korea," Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency, said in September. Later in the ...

White House's Sullivan sees risk of North Korea exploiting Seoul political turmoil Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider ...

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Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence services have said that many of the troops that deployed to Russia are some of Pyongyang's best, drawn from the 11th Corps, also known as the Storm Corps. The ...

Ukraine's top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, has said the North Korean troops are "highly motivated ... Russia has been sending the North Korean forces into very high-casualty front-line assaults. Biden's ...

North Korean ballistic missiles have been striking targets in Ukraine with increasing accuracy in recent weeks compared to over the past year — suggesting the Hermit Kingdom is using the ...

North Korean troops have not been fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast since mid-January, the Yonhap news agency reported on Feb. 4, citing South Korea's intelligence agency. Moscow's key ally Pyongyang ...

Exclusive-Ukraine Sees Marked Improvement in Accuracy of Russia's North Korean Missiles By Tom Balmforth ... editing by Mike Collett-White and Frank Jack Daniel) ...

When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in the war against Ukraine. It also shed ...