North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the North's deployment of troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine was justified, defending his country's participation in the war as an exercise of its sovereign rights.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said North Korea’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war was justified, calling it an exercise of sovereign rights in defence of a “brother nation,” state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

About 600 North Korean soldiers, out of a total of 15,000, were killed fighting on the side of russia against Ukraine, South Korean lawmakers said, citing data