SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Around six months after deploying its troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, North Korea appears to have lost thousands of young men but received rare military technology and economic aid as a reward to potentially offset international sanctions. In October, North Korea dispatched more than 10,000 troops to [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have additionally dispatched at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s military said Thursday. The assessment came amid concerns that North Korea and Russia’s deepening military alignment could lead to Moscow transferring advanced arms [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) said Wednesday it has hosted a forum themed on the reconstruction of Ukraine with business representatives from the Eastern European nation to strengthen bilateral ties in Kyiv’s postwar rebuilding efforts. The event was held Tuesday in Seoul in conjunction with a visit by [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean delegations for economy and public health affairs have left for Russia, state news media reported Tuesday, signaling active bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The government’s economic delegation, led by Yun Jong-ho, external economic relations minister, left Pyongyang on Monday to visit Russia, the Korean Central News [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine said that the North has military training camps that feature mockups of facilities and buildings in Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island, according to a South Korean lawmaker who recently met the soldier on Thursday. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 1,500 North Korean soldiers who were believed to be additionally deployed to Russia have been already on front lines to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker who recently visited Kyiv said Wednesday, citing Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have deployed additional troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, although the number of recently deployed troops is being assessed, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday. “Following about a monthlong lull, North Korean troops were placed back in the frontline region of Kursk starting in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-ranking delegation from North Korea’s Workers’ Party has arrived in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party, state media reported Tuesday. The delegation, led by Ri Hi-yong, a member of the party’s Central Committee Politburo, landed in Moscow the previous day at the invitation [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - A joint motorway bridge project linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River is under way, with completion targeted by the end of 2026, according to a Russian report. The Russian government has tasked TonnelYuzhStroi, a construction company, with designing and building a motorway bridge over the river [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is presumed to be accelerating preparations for the additional deployment of its troops to Russia while continuing to push for potential launches of a spy satellite or an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), South Korea’s military said Friday. The assessment comes as South Korea and the United States [...]