Russia’s foreign minister has warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North Korea.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a visit to North Korea, said Moscow respects and understands why Pyongyang is developing its nuclear program.

Washington has said the treatment of Glavprodukt, the only U.S. company Moscow has seized, will influence a planned reset of U.S.-Russia relations.

North Korea currently supplies Russia with up to 40% of ammunition used in special operations. This was stated in an interview with Bloomberg by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov*.

Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for unwitting companies.

South Korea sends back North Koreans who drifted on wooden boats across sea border - North Koreans sent back across their sea border after ‘failed efforts to contact Pyongyang’

Some U.S. officials talked about an “axis” of authoritarian nations, but the American and Israeli war with Iran has exposed the limits of that idea.