More than 12,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk Oblast and began fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine last December. "The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is significantly benefiting from receiving Russian military equipment,

North Korea is “significantly benefiting” from its troops gaining battlefield experience fighting alongside Russian forces as it makes them more capable of waging war against rivals South Korea and Japan, a US official warned the UN.

The country is 'benefiting from receiving Russian military equipment, technology and experience,' said the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

North Korean forces are gaining combat experience by participating in Russia's war against Ukraine. As a result, Pyongyang is becoming better prepared for a potential military campaign against its neighboring countries,

Russia may be close to sharing advanced satellite technology with North Korea after the isolated nation supplied troops to help bolster Moscow’s war in Ukraine, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday.

The North Korean losses amount to almost 10 percent of the country’s deployment to Russia, the Biden administration said.

At the same time on Saturday, the Ukrainian armed forces reported 179 separate clashes along the tense line of contact, facing down attacks around the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the city of Pokrovsk in the country's Donbas region. They estimated as many as 1,730 Russian personnel were killed or captured in the assaults.