(Reuters) - Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.

North Korean troops have suffered thousands of casualties in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Ukrainian estimates

These days Russia and North Korea are writing a new battlefield history together. North Korea has dispatched some 12,000 troops to fight in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The soldiers are believed to be some of North Korea’s most elite,

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has confirmed the deployment of troops from North Korea to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces.

There is mounting evidence from the battlefield, intelligence reports and testimonies of defectors that some North Korean soldiers are resorting to extreme measures as they support Russia's three-year war with Ukraine.

A chance for Ukraine and Trump to set Putin back and drive a wedge between Pyongyang and Moscow.

Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the United Nations Security Council learned last week. North Korea launched ...

North Korean troops have suffered an estimated 92 casualties every day since significant fighting in Russia’s border Kursk ... future,” the ISW said. South Korea’s National Intelligence ...

Ukrainian operatives from special units have captured another group of North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region. Their equipment is surprising, as one was found carrying a modern Russian AK-12 rifle.

One of the North Koreans captured by Kyiv shared more details on his journey to Russia, his military service, and what he knows about the world behind Pyongyang’s information blackout.

Many of his compatriots are believed to have been used as ‘cannon fodder’ to reduce losses to the Russian military. In newly released footage, the soldier claimed that he did not know that he was going to be fighting in Russia.