North Korean state media reported that Sergei Shoigu made the comments during his visit to the secretive state.
described North Korea's army as"the strongest in the world," the country's state media reported.
With around 1.2 million personnel, the military force of North Korea, known as the Korean People's Army is the fourth largest in the world in 2022,. Russia is in fifth place, with around 830,000, while China's two-million-strong army is the world's largest.
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