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 ...

North Korean conscription stipulates mandatory military service for up to 10 years starting at age 17, leaving young soldiers with little agency over their fate.

Ukraine is ready to send two North Koreans captured in battle back to their homeland in exchange for its own soldiers held in Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (UPI) --At least 300 North Korean soldiers sent to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine have been killed and 2,700 have been injured, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Monday.

Discord over commanders’ unrealistic goals and extremely hazardous combat tasks appears to be growing among Russian soldiers. In a number of conversations recently intercepted by HUR, soldiers discuss ...

Ukrainian forces, from a different unit to the one Oscar Jenkins served in, seen in the Donetsk region earlier this week Credit: PRESS SERVICE OF THE 24 MECHANIZED BRIGADE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE ...

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Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces repelled a DPRK assault in the Kursk region, eliminating 18 soldiers, including one who detonated a grenade killing himself under Russian orders to avoid capture.

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside of Tsiolkovsky, in the far eastern Amur ...

Kyiv previously claimed to have caught a North Korean soldier in Kursk on 27 December, but later said he had died of his wounds. The two soldiers captured on Saturday were brought to Kyiv for ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - After a battle in Russia's snowy western region of Kursk this week, Ukrainian special forces scoured the bodies of more than a dozen slain North Korean enemy soldiers. Among them, ...