1.President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting that North Korea's troop deployment in Russia constituted security threats to both South Korea and the world, denouncing what he calls "illegal" military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow.

2.North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday reported that North Korea’s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, left Pyongyang to visit Russia amid international criticism over the North’s participation in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

3.The South Korean Embassy in China said Monday that a South Korean man has been detained on espionage charges in China, the first time for a South Korean in such a case. The suspect in his 50s, whose identity has been withheld, was reportedly arrested late last year and had been working at a semiconductor company.