North Korea ratified the pact last week ... In a separate report on Tuesday, KCNA said that a delegation from Russia's Military Academy of the Armed Forces' General Staff arrived in Pyongyang the previous day. Pyongyang has been assisting Moscow in ...

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, called for "broader and more diverse" cooperation with Russia during talks with Russian Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov. The meeting took place on Monday during the Russian delegation's visit,

North Korea could send up to 100,000 troops to support Russia's war in Ukraine. Source: Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with estimates made by some of the G20 countries Details: According to one source,

The upper house of Russian parliament has ratified a treaty with North Korea envisioning mutual military assistance.

On the one hand, the deployment of the North Korean troops seems a logical follow-up to the mutual defense treaty signed by Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang in June. On the other hand, it raises a series of important questions.

The United States is concerned by Russia's growing relationship with North Korea and by what technology the two countries may be exchanging, the top U.S. arms control official said on Wednesday.

North Korea ratified a major defence pact with Russia on Tuesday, outlining mutual military aid and requiring both countries to provide each other with immediate military assistance if attacked. Russia had already completed its side of the ratification last week after the pact was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov in Pyongyang, state media reported Tuesday, as visiting Russian delegations continue to highlight deepening ties between the two countries.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's natural resources minister Alexander Kozlov on Monday, state media KCNA reported, in the latest sign of growing ties between Pyongyang and Moscow.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, called for "broader and more diverse" cooperation with Russia during discussions with the Russian Minister of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov. The meeting took place on Monday during a visit by the Russian delegation,

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with Russia's visiting natural resources minister and called for "more extensive and diversified" promotion of cooperative relations between their countries, state media reported Tuesday.