Russia is deploying major resources to take back the entire region of Kursk, which Ukraine invaded in early August. Some 1,000 North Koreans have been sent to the area to assist 50,000 Russian soldiers,

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has, for the first time, sent combatant units abroad, to aid Russia in the war in Ukraine. As noted in the Joint Statement on the DPRK’s Deployment of Troops to Russia this development indelibly connects the Indo-Pacific and European theaters,