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.

North Korea will send thousands of military builders and deminers to help reconstruction efforts in Russia’s Kursk region, an area Ukraine successfully invaded and remained entrenched in for months, Russian media has reported, a further sign of the deepening military alliance between Moscow and Pyongyang.

North Korea is reportedly preparing to send another 5,000 personnel to Russia, including two military brigades, construction workers, and 1,000 demining experts for the Kursk region. -This deepens a military alliance that has already seen an estimated 6,