As tensions mount, analysts predict that clashes between North Korean troops deployed to Russia and Ukrainian forces are ...

Choi and others have also highlighted what appears to be a stepped-up effort by China to find and return defectors to North ...

South Korea's Unification Ministry said 31 defectors re-entered the North from 2012 to 2022 ... according to a Chinese-based tourist operator. Travis King, the U.S. Army soldier who ran across the ...

After weeks of speculation over the West’s response to the crisis, US ... soldiers to question why they’re fighting in a foreign land. The defectors, part of South Korea’s 30,000-strong ...

Escaped North Koreans have sent a terrifying warning to the thousands of young soldiers being ... Kang Mi-Jin, a defector who runs a company analyzing North Korea’s economy, said even family ...

Almost 200 North Korean defectors ... of those soldiers have already moved closer to Ukraine," Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a briefing on Monday. The U.S. is "increasingly ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned North Korea could “soon” have as many as 12,000 soldiers on Russian soil, while US President Joe Biden slammed the deployment as “very ...

In a unique development, around 200 North Korean defectors in South Korea ... Last week, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that North Korean soldiers are already on the frontlines ...

North Korea has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia as the alliance between the countries deepens, and they appear to be headed to the front lines of the Ukraine war. The US said last week it had ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 ... the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine. There will be no limitations on the use of U.S.-provided weapons on those forces, ...

Drawing on their military backgrounds, this band of ex-soldiers ... North Korea’s military culture and psychological state better than anyone else,” Ahn Chan-il, a 69-year-old defector ...