North Korea has supplied Russia with thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine, intelligence officials said, but old footage that has resurfaced on social media does not show the funeral of a general deployed by Pyongyang to lead its troops in the ongoing invasion.

North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia were given fake military documents with Russian names and birthplaces, the Ukrainian military said, amid claims from Kyiv that Russia is trying to conceal the presence of foreign fighters on the battlefield.

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,

North Korea has lost more than 3,000 troops in about two months of combat in Russia’s Kursk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday — and he criticized world leaders for doing “almost nothing” to counter Moscow’s alliance with Pyongyang.

To achieve peace in Ukraine, the incoming Trump administration will have to turn off Russia’s most active ally — North Korea. Last year, after watching Russia falter in Europe’s largest war since World War II,

The number of North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in Kursk has exceeded 3,000, according to preliminary data, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Monday. The Ukrainian president made these statements after meeting with the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army,