North Korea has slowly transitioned away from direct Soviet transfers in favor of domestic production, but Soviet DNA continues to permeate Pyongyang’s defense industry; for instance, their ...

North Korea's founding leader may never have secured power were it not for a Soviet propaganda campaign and crackdown that helped him trounce rivals after World War II, a historian says.

In December 1950, the first F-86 Sabre unit arrived to Korean theater. It was the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing and it operated from Kimpo airfield near Seoul, South Korea. Previous air superiority of ...

According to South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), South Korea and the US should investigate the effectiveness of the CTR program, implemented by the former Soviet Union in the early ...

North Korea later battled the South and its U.S. and United Nations allies to a stalemate in the 1950-1953 Korean War with extensive aid from China and the Soviet Union.

In 1950, Soviet leader Josef Stalin persuaded China’s Mao Zedong to provide troops to North Korea for its invasion of South Korea. On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed ...

That's when Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and Kim Jong Un's grandfather, approached his key ally, the Soviet Union, for assistance in building a nuclear weapons program.

North Korea later battled the South and its U.S. and United Nations allies to a stalemate in the 1950-1953 Korean War with extensive aid from China and the Soviet Union.

North Korea and Russia also have similar weapons systems so they could be put to use right away. North Korea’s weapons development has been based on the former Soviet Union's weapons systems.

Following a brief diplomatic pall during the Khruschev period, Soviet military-technological transfers to North Korea resumed in full force over the mid-1960s and continued into the mid-1980’s ...