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.

By Hyunsu Yim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu in Pyongyang on Tuesday and discussed a "special military operation" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine,