DPRK to send military construction workers to Kursk region

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will send military builders and sappers to help restore Russia's western Kursk region, Russian news agencies said on Tuesday.

Sergei Shoigu, the head of Russia's Security Council, held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than two weeks, Russian news agencies reported. Shoigu said DPRK would send "a division of builders, two military brigades, 5,000 people" as well as 1,000 deminers to Kursk.