The new arrangement, aimed at rebuilding Kursk, is another avenue for North Korea to gain valuable experience and economic resources from Russia.

North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to the Kursk region in occupied Ukraine to aid the Russian military in reconstruction efforts. Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announced Tuesday that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has committed 6,

North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to Russia's Kursk region to help rebuild it after a Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year,