North Korea began sending an estimated 11,000 troops to the Russian Kursk region late last year, soon after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on a mutual defense pact designed to strengthen their alliance against what they called a US-led “Western hegemony.”

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed North Korean troops had been redeployed to the Kursk region in western Russia following reports of massive troop losses.

Ukraine's claim came just days after South Korea's intelligence service stated that North Korean troops had been pulled back from the front lines. View on euronews

North Korean Troops are "back on the Ukraine frontline" after their brutal meat grinder strategy left thousands slaughtered.

Ukraine is fighting a war against two nuclear weapons countries: Russia, a signatory of the non-proliferation treaty, and North Korea, which is not. Since 2014, Moscow has been undermining the logic and letter of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with its nuclear posturing.