Russia is treating North Korean troops well right now, Ukraine's Zelenskyy said, as it wants more to come fight, but they will become "cannon fodder."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed his country will “invariably support” Russia’s war in Ukraine as he met Russia's defense chief, the North’s state media reported Saturday. A Russia military delegation led by Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on Friday,

Russ defense minister makes a visit to Pyongyang, where Kim says ‘right to self-defense’ obtains against nations providing weapons to Ukraine.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has told the Russian defence minister that Ukraine's use of long-range weapons is the result of direct military intervention by the United States and Moscow is entitled to fight in self-defence,

South Korea's spy agency says that North Korea has recently supplied additional artillery systems to Russia to support its war efforts against Ukraine.

Pyongyang will "invariably support" Moscow, North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, told a visiting Russian delegation last week.

Some of the North Korean soldiers deployed to fight for Russia have already been killed, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 1 without revealing their numbers.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the Kyodo agency, stated that North Korean soldiers deployed in the Kursk region of Russia are becoming "cannon fodder." Even now, there are those among them who are killed and injured,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a wide-ranging interview with Kyodo News that some of the North Korean soldiers deployed by the Russian army to fight Ukrainian troops in the Russian border region of Kursk have already been killed in battle.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that Russia will deploy a significant number of North Korean soldiers to the front line against Ukraine, where they will almost certainly be used as cannon fodder.