The foreign ministries of South Korea and Britain agreed on Monday to establish a hotline for closer discussion and cooperation on urgent global issues, the ministry here said. The agreement was reached during a high-level meeting in Seoul between Cho Koo-rae,

Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers who were fighting on behalf of Russia in a Russian border region, South Korea’s intelligence service said.

Ukraine’s president released a video of the two soldiers being interrogated, revealing they knew little about the war they were sent to fight in.

"I didn't even know who we were fighting against," the captured soldier from Pyongyang told Ukraine's Security Service.

The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant test since the 1990s famine.

Ukrainian intelligence (SBU) released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw.

North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine have been told by Pyongyang to kill themselves rather than be captured alive.

Thousands of North Korean troops have been deployed to fight for Russia.

Ukrainian soldiers retreated after an assault in Russia's Kursk Oblast that lasted eight hours and resulted in the death of 21 North Koreans.

A South Korean lawmaker said Seoul's intelligence showed some 3,000 North Korean troops have been wounded or killed in Kursk.

A surrendering North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop his sausage at gunpoint, according to the Ukrainian paratroopers who captured him...