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North Korea to Deploy 6,000 Engineers and Deminers to Russia's Kursk Region
- On June 18, 2025, Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Security Council chief, announced that North Korea plans to deploy 6,000 military construction personnel and deminers to assist with rebuilding efforts in the Kursk region.
- This deployment follows the November 2024 mutual defense treaty between Russia and North Korea, which commits each side to aid the other if attacked and marks growing bilateral cooperation.
- Shoigu characterized the support as solidarity from the North Korean government and its leader, Kim Jong Un, involving the deployment of 5,000 military construction workers and 1,000 deminers tasked with clearing mines and rebuilding infrastructure.
- South Korean intelligence reports indicate that approximately 15,000 North Korean laborers are working in Russia through industrial cooperation programs, and that North Korean forces have suffered about 4,700 casualties on the Russia-Ukraine front, with around 600 of those being fatalities.
- The announcement signals deepening military ties amid international condemnation from South Korea and Japan, which called the cooperation illegal and a violation of UN sanctions.
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North Korea To Send 6,000 More Workers To Russia’s Kursk Region
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will dispatch another 6,000 personnel to Russia’s Kursk region, deepening Pyongyang’s wartime alliance with Moscow, Russian state media reported. According to Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, the deployment includes 1,000 sappers to help demine the area and 5,000 construction workers to rebuild infrastructure damaged during Ukraine’s 2024 offensive. Shoigu has visited Pyongyang three times in rece…
5000 North Korean builders are sent to Russia. What they do there, East Asian correspondent Samuel Emch knows.
North Korea is to send 5,000 construction workers and a thousand deminers to Russia to rebuild the Kursk region, according to Vladimir Putin's close advisor. In total, over 24,000 North Korean workers are reportedly ready to be sent to Russia soon to fill gaps in several industries.
Russia and North Korea have officially resumed passenger rail service between their capitals Moscow and Pyongyang for the first time in more than four years. It is the world's longest direct rail link, more than 10,000 kilometers long and taking a staggering eight to nine days.
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