Pentagon, South Korea urge North Korea to withdraw troops from Russia

It comes just days after thousands of soldiers from Pyongyang were sent deep inside Russia to help Moscow win its bloody war against Ukraine.

The U.S. expects some 8,000 North Korean troops that are now on Ukraine’s border to be sent into combat in the coming days

A North Korean soldier has described hellish scenes of slaughter in the Russian region of Kursk with "mountains of corpses" littering the battlefield, after his unit was wiped out by Ukrainian troops.

National Security Adviser Shin Won-sik said Friday that South Korea is "not considering the dispatch of troops to Ukraine at all," amid reports of North Korea's imminent participation in the war to support Russia.