Russia-North Korea Military Ties: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is preparing to station an additional 30,000–50,000 North Korean troops on its territory and has received more ballistic missiles from Pyongyang, while South Korea keeps its stance that lethal arms to Ukraine are off the table. Combat Training Transfer: Ukraine’s military intelligence also claims North Korean missile crews are embedding inside a Russian brigade in Voronezh to gain real launch experience—raising the risk of skills being replicated against South Korea and the U.S. Cyber & Crypto Revenue: South Korean firm Genians reports Kimsuky has built a private, self-hosted AI setup using local large language model tools (like Ollama and GPT4All) plus document-search features to automate attacks and craft more convincing phishing, including finance/crypto-themed decoys. Insider Threat Warnings: Canada’s Global Affairs flags North Korean remote IT workers as a growing insider threat, citing identity fraud, data theft, and AI-enabled obfuscation. Sanctions-Busting Economy: Bloomberg Economics estimates Kim Jong Un’s regime earned up to $22B in foreign exchange from 2022–2025, driven heavily by arms sales to Russia and supplemented by China trade, overseas labor, IT services, and cybercrime. Trade Corridor Watch: A North Korea–China bridge completed in 2014 but long unused is reportedly seeing renewed preparations for opening, signaling possible thawing in cross-border trade.