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Lavrov Begins Second Strategic Dialogue in North Korea as Pyongyang Prepares Fresh Troop Deployments

This visit underscores a deepening military alliance that precedes a planned surge of North Korean troops, engineers, support personnel contributing to Russia’s war operations.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives at the first plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025.
This image from January 20, 2022 shows a woman in Seoul, South Korea, walking past a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test.
This photo, captured from a broadcast of the Korean Central TV, shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shaking hands with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui as they meet for talks in Pyongyang on Oct. 19, 2023. (For Use Only in South Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

Overview

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Wonsan on July 11 for talks with North Korean counterpart Choe Son-hui, marking the second round of their strategic dialogue.
  • Under their June 2024 defence partnership, Pyongyang plans to send 25,000 to 30,000 additional soldiers to support Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, on top of around 11,000 troops previously deployed.
  • North Korea has committed 6,000 military engineers and builders to reconstruction and fortification efforts in Russia’s conflict-hit Kursk region.
  • Satellite imagery reveals ongoing cargo planes and troop transport ship movements between North Korea and Russia, signaling expanded joint military logistics.
  • Translated training manuals and recent reports confirm a mutual defence pact and growing interoperability between Russian and North Korean forces.