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.

MOSCOW: North Korea will send military builders and sappers to help restore Russia's western Kursk region after Ukraine's incursion, Russian news agencies cited Moscow's security chief as saying on Tuesday (Jun 17) on a trip to Pyongyang.

North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to the Kursk region in occupied Ukraine to aid the Russian military in reconstruction efforts. Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announced Tuesday that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has committed 6,