North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a meeting with Russia's Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, the North's state media confirmed Wednesday, saying that Kim affirmed Pyongyang's cooperation with Moscow under their mutual defense treaty.

North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to Russia's Kursk region to help rebuild it after a Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year,

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu arrived in Pyongyang on June 17 on a "special assignment" from President Vladimir Putin, Russian state-controlled news agency TASS reported on June 17.

Russian Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than two weeks, state media reported. North Korea has emerged as one of Russia's key allies since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Russia's top presidential security adviser Sergei Shoigu was expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after arriving in Pyongyang "on special instructions" from President Vladimir Putin, Russia's Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.

The California Governor did not hold back during a news conference in San Francisco, accusing Trump of putting on a "vulgar display" while also claiming the President was weak.