The development came Friday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was to travel to North Korea amid booming military and other cooperation between the two countries that have raised concerns among their neighbors.

North Korea currently supplies Russia with up to 40% of ammunition used in special operations. This was stated in an interview with Bloomberg by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov*.

South Korea's chairman of of the joint chiefs of staff hosted his counterparts from the U.S. and Japan in Seoul on Friday.

Kim Myung-soo, his U.S. counterpart, Gen. Dan Caine and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Yoshida pose for a photo during their meeting at the JCS headquarters in Seoul on July 10. [JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF]   The top military officer of the United States stressed the importance of security cooperation among South Korea,

The mission to safely guide the man to the South involved a considerable number of South Korean troops and took around 20 hours

South Korea’s military says an unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and is in custody.