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North Korea plans to send military construction workers and deminers to Russia
- In June 2025, Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of Russia’s Security Council, visited North Korea’s capital where he held discussions with Kim Jong Un and confirmed Pyongyang’s commitment to send 1,000 sappers and 5,000 military construction personnel to aid reconstruction efforts in Russia’s Kursk area.
- This visit followed the strategic partnership agreement signed last year between Moscow and Pyongyang, which features provisions for mutual defense and outlines cooperation following Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk in August 2024.
- North Korean troops fought alongside Russian forces to repel the incursion, and the two countries plan to build memorials honoring Korean soldiers killed in these battles in both Russia and North Korea.
- Shoigu announced that after successfully driving out the invaders from Russian territory, both sides have decided to maintain their productive collaboration, with North Korea offering support for rebuilding efforts in the Kursk area following discussions that lasted over two hours.
- The expansion of military and reconstruction cooperation reflects deepening Russia–North Korea ties amid accusations by the U.S. and South Korea of Pyongyang supplying Russia with conventional weapons to sustain the war in Ukraine.
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The Straits TimesNorth Korea to send army builders, deminers to Russia: Russian news agencies
MOSCOW: North Korea will send military builders and sappers to help restore Russia's western Kursk region after Ukraine's incursion, Russian news agencies cited Moscow's security chief as saying on Tuesday (Jun 17) on a trip to Pyongyang. Sergei Shoigu, the head of Russia's Security Council, held talk
North Korean authorities have announced the dispatch of thousands of workers to Russia to carry out mine clearance and reconstruction work in the Kursk region after Moscow announced it had recaptured the entire territory…
North Korean military in Russia shifts from combat role to reconstruction
In the latest sign of closer ties between Moscow and Pyongyang, North Korea will deploy construction battalions and mine-clearance troops to Russia's heavily damaged Kursk region, it was reported Tuesday.
A senior Russian security official traveled to Pyongyang for the second time this month for another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Russian state press reported Tuesday, in a new demonstration of the growing ties between countries in the midst of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. Russian news agency Tass said Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu arrived in the North Korean capital on an unspecified “s…
North Korea will send thousands of military and genius workers to the Kursk region of Russia to help rebuild and demin them after the Ukrainian invasion, while the North Korean troops helped Moscow...
Pyongyang highlighted soldiers and shoes for Kursk, to demine and recover affected territory. Kim Jong Un will still raise a memorial to the militaries who died in the war.
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