The announcement comes after North Korea confirmed for the first time its soldiers are fighting alongside Russia.

North Korea said the construction of a new bridge linking it to Russia is a "significant" development of relations between ...

North Korea and Russia have started building ... It will stand about 400yd downstream from a railway bridge that has served as the two nations’ only land link since 1959.

Construction of the bridge - set to span the Tumen river in the country's northeast - began on Wednesday. It will be situated near the only other land connection between Russia and North Korea - a ...

Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv — and most of the world — ...

The proposal for a de-facto US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia would reverse years of ... with a painful proposal that sees significant land concessions – a move that one Ukrainian ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.