North Korea will send 5,000 military construction workers to Russia, Kremlin says - Sergei Shoigu says North Korean workers will help repair damage from Ukrainian incursion in Kursk

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.

North Korea will send thousands to support reconstruction work in Russia's Kursk region. North Korea has already supplied combat troops and conventional weapons to back Russia's war against Ukraine.