North Korea will send 6,000 military workers and combat engineers to help rebuild Russia's Kursk region, Moscow's top security official said, in the latest show of growing ties between the two countries.

Thousands of North Korean laborers are already toiling in Russia. A new contingent is headed to the region where North Korean troops fought Ukraine.

North Korea is looking into sending its citizens to Russia to work at a drone factory so that the visiting workers can help increase production in exchange for gaining experience in drone operation. — Ukrinform.