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 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,

North Korea will send 5,000 military construction workers to Russia, Kremlin says - Sergei Shoigu says North Korean workers will help repair damage from Ukrainian incursion in Kursk