North Korean troops in Ukraine

Ignoring the threat posed by North Korea, as happened at this year's summit, undermines Euro-Atlantic security.

History suggests we should pay close attention to such official pronouncements – not just actions – in North Korea-Russia relations. 

Russia’s growing technological assistance has the potential to bolster North Korea’s development of ICBMs and SLBMs, nuclear-powered submarines, and low yield nuclear weapons.

Neither Trump nor Putin has much incentive to address the North Korea issue, but leaving it off the table risks putting the nail in the coffin of the U.N.'s nonproliferation efforts.

Sending soldiers to fight in the Vietnam War fundamentally transformed South Korea's economy. The deployment of North Korean soldiers to the Russian-Ukraine War will likely do the same.

Pyongyang would seem to have little reason to send its own people to risk their lives in the Russia-Ukraine War. But these soldiers appear to be at the heart of the North Korea-Russia security partnership.

It is time to examine not only the effects and effectiveness of North Korean troops in combat, but the wider implications for international security and conflict management.

North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine provide a rare window into covert military collaboration.

The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant test since the 1990s famine.

A country on the precipice of war with its neighbors would not be selling arms and sending troops off to fight in a distant conflict.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that more than 300 North Korean soldiers were killed fighting against Ukraine, while more than 2,700 were injured.

President Yoon faces legal and geopolitical conundrums in his plans for overseas military aid.