Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for joint international action against Russia, Iran and North Korea. "Russia is now trying to save Iran's nuclear programme – there is no other way to interpret the public signals and non-public activities,

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.

By Hyunsu Yim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -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,