President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to two senior U.S. officials.
Ukraine’s allies will look to pressure China over North Korea’s growing support for Russia’s war during a Group of 20 Summit in Brazil, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Russian military has assembled a force of 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, as it prepares to begin an assault aimed at reclaiming territory seized by Ukraine in the Kursk region of Russia, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
North Korea’s foreign minister promised to stick with Russia until “victory” during talks with her Russian counterpart in Moscow, as Western concerns escalate over defense cooperation that includes Pyongyang sending thousands of troops to help in the war against Ukraine.
The Biden administration is turning to an unlikely interlocutor as North Korean troops move into combat position to help Russia in its war in Ukraine. To convey threats to North Korea, U.S. officials are talking to China.
South Korea warned that North Korean troops and generals dispatched to Russia to aid Moscow’s war on Ukraine are possibly moving to the frontline, in a sign the conflict is on the verge of spreading and dragging in new players.
A North Korean balloon carrying trash exploded over the South Korean presidential office in Seoul on Thursday, dumping filth over one of the capital city’s most heavily guarded premises.
The United States on Wednesday said North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia, raising the possibility they will be sent to fight in Ukraine — an assertion made by South Korea and the Ukrainian government in Kyiv.
South Korea and Ukraine warned that North Korea is preparing to send a sizable number of troops to help Russia’s war on Ukraine in a sign of deepening military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.
North Korea blew up sections of roads in its own territory that are part of links once used to connect the southern part of the peninsula with the north, in a show of defiance after it accused Seoul of flying drones over Pyongyang.
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, who startled security experts at an international security conference in Munich, Germany over the weekend with threats of a clash of “Biblical proportions” between the United States and North Korea, said today that he meant every word of it – but...
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is lauding North Korea sanctions legislation that his committee unanimously advanced today. “The time has come for the U.S. to take the lead to ensure that all nations work together to isolate the Kim regime...
