SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, Russian media reported, another sign of expanding military partnership between the two nations.<\/p>\n
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu as saying that North Korea will dispatch 1,000 deminers as well 5,000 military construction workers to the Kursk region. <\/p>\n
RIA Novosti said Shoigu made the comments during a visit to Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n
North Korea has already sent thousands of troops and conventional weapons to support Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. Washington and Seoul have expressed concern that, in return, Kim may seek Russian technology transfers that could enhance the threat posed by his nuclear-armed military.<\/p>\n
During a visit to Pyongyang earlier this month, Shoigu and Kim Jong Un had discussed rebuilding the Kursk region, according to Russian state media.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Tass news agency earlier reported Shoigu arrived in the North Korean capital on Tuesday on an unspecified \u201cspecial\u201d mission from Putin and was expected to meet with Kim. North Korean state media didn\u2019t immediately confirm the visit.<\/p>\n
In April, Pyongyang and Moscow officially confirmed the deployment of North Korean troops<\/a> to Russia for the first time, saying that soldiers of the two countries were fighting alongside each other to repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk border region.<\/a> Putin thanked North Korea at that time for its participation in the war and promised not to forget their sacrifices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[11410,4179,29515,6660,13289,332,7659,7661,29906,333,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-191701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-kim-jong-un","11":"tag-north-korea","12":"tag-north-korea-government","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russia-government","15":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","16":"tag-sergei-shoigu","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-war-and-unrest","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698799276066164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}