MOSCOW, Russia — Russian lawmakers will vote Wednesday to ratify a landmark mutual defense pact with North Korea, as the West says Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to fight for Russia against ...

The Russian upper house is expected to approve the treaty soon, further solidifying the pact. The U.S. confirmed on Wednesday that North Korea has deployed thousands of troops to Russia ...

SEOUL, Nov. 12 (UPI) --North Korea ratified a defense treaty with ... Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia earlier completed its own ratification of the pact, with Putin signing it into ...

Is this new pact a revival of the now defunct 1961 treaty between North Korea and Russia? TERRY: The mutual defense provision in the new Russia-North Korea treaty recalls the 1961 Treaty of ...

Russia’s upper house of parliament ratified a mutual-defense pact with North Korea, amid US and European alarm over Pyongyang’s support for President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

North Korea and Russia have pledged to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance in the event the other is attacked, according to the text of a new landmark defense pact ...

[RODONG SINMUN] South Korea expressed concerns Tuesday after Russia began the ratification process for a mutual defense treaty signed with North Korea ... of parliament, to ratify the ...

The treaty raises the risk of confrontation in the region and could prompt the United States and its allies to bolster their military presence on China’s periphery. By David Pierson and Choe ...

China has refrained from taking a stance on a new defense pact between Russia and North Korea, which experts say could upset regional power dynamics. Chinese leaders are concerned about the ...

Experts note that the language is almost identical to that of a previous mutual defense pact from 1961 between the Soviet Union and North Korea ... Advertising Russia also has mutual defense ...