Intelligence official says West grappling to catch up with emerging axis of China, North Korea and Iran supporting Russia

 

A lot is at stake for North Korea’s leader as he sends young, inexperienced recruits to join Vladimir Putin’s war in ukraine

Vladimir Putin greeted North Korea's foreign minister with an awkwardly long handshake as the pair met in Moscow on Monday, 4 November. The Russian president, 72, met Choe Son Hui as she continued her official visit to the country. State television s ...

Significant number of North Korean troops headed to the frontline areas, including Kursk, says Seoul

G7 nations say Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops is a sign of desperation as Vladimir Putin looks to plug troop losses

The fighting quality and battle experience of North Korea troops is unknown

Kim Jong-un has called his army the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russia’s war

US says North Korea has deployed 10,000 troops in Russia, with more than half of them in the Kursk region

US warns Pyongyang’s troops fighting inside Putin’s ‘meat grinder’ war would be legitimate targets

The outcome could have profound implications for the wars in Gaza and ukraine as well as the climate crisis

UN chief says North Korean boots in Russia ‘represent a very dangerous escalation’

US says North Korea has deployed 10,000 troops in Russia, with more than half of them in the Kursk region

Her win comes as Moldova’s EU membership efforts in wake of ukraine invasion gain momentum

Russia’s apparent plan is to flatten then reoccupy the Ukrainian city, where the situation has become dramatically worse since the beginning of October

Comes as Russia unleashes overnight drone attack on Kyiv, say officials

ukraine presses Russia for list of prisoners ready to be swapped after Moscow claims Kyiv refusing to take back its own citizens. What we know on day 984

Comes as Russia unleashes overnight drone attack on Kyiv, say officials

Foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow forges closer ties amid imminent deployment of thousands of North Korean troops against ukraine

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has reacted angrily after the British ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.”