A large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted the official websites of South Korea's Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), rendering the sites inaccessible for several hours early Wednesday.

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ukrainian officials said on Monday that their forces had fired at North Korean soldiers in combat for the first time since their deployment by Russia to its western Kursk region.

North Korean troops have been fired upon for the first time since sending thousands of soldiers to fight alongside Russians against Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official. Andrii Kovalenko, Ukraine’s head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council,