Multiple defectors from North Korea spoke to NBC News about the mindset of soldiers sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

The report highlights Kim’s concern over foreign media, which provide rare glimpses into the outside world through K-pop music and Hollywood films. While possessing or distributing such material is harshly punished in North Korea,

Previously, on January 9, Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian forces had captured two North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region. Additionally, the President revealed that North Korea has already lost 4,000 troops, killed and wounded, in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid capture, one former soldier told NBC News.

South Korea’s military says it suspects North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Russia after its soldiers already deployed on the Russian-Ukraine war fronts suffered heavy casualties

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES Ukrainian soldiers who found the North Korean soldier say he was carrying a fake Russian military ID which identified him as 29-year-old Ment Chat from a Russian border region

On the eve of his historic return to the White House, Trump helped broker the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has allowed many of the Israeli (and American) hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 to be returned. If the deal holds, more will be released over time.

Hyunseung Lee, a former soldier who fled North Korea, told BI that those sent to fight against Ukraine have "zero relationship with modern warfare."

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to declassify remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Trump said, “Everything will be revealed.”

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.

North Korean troops appear to have temporarily pulled back from the frontline in Russia after suffering heavy losses, a Ukrainian special forces commander has told Sky News.

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