“Putin paid Kim Jong-un to send DPRK soldiers and weapons to the Russian Federation – NYTKDPRK earned up to $5.5 billion from supplying Russia with weapons and can receive $572 million annually for sending troops. In exchange, North Korea receives oil, food and modern weapons.”, — write on: unn.ua
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As the publication notes, in exchange for troops and weapons, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un receives food, oil, cash and modern weapons systems worth billions of dollars from Russia. As the publication writes, this will probably allow his regime to withstand international sanctions and modernize its armed forces.
In June, Kim Jong-un and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin signed an agreement on mutual defense and cooperation in Pyongyang. After that, North Korea started sending troops to Russia. Currently, there are about 11,000 of them there. In addition, North Korea provided Russia with 20,000 transport containers of weapons. In particular, we are talking about millions of artillery shells, newly developed ballistic missiles, rocket launchers and long-range howitzers.
According to the calculations of Elena Huseynova, a researcher at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, North Korea has earned up to $5.5 billion from agreements with Russia for the supply of weapons. Also, North Korea can receive up to $572 million annually due to the deployment of troops. At the same time, the official export of the country only last year amounted to $330 million.
However, neither Russia nor North Korea disclosed how exactly Moscow paid North Korea.
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But North Korean oil tankers are bringing far more oil from Russia than is allowed under UN sanctions, according to an analysis of satellite images released last month by Britain’s Open Source Center and the BBC.
On the ground, the North Korean military is also receiving valuable information from the battlefield for the first time in decades, including innovations in the use of drones that are changing modern warfare. The war against Ukraine gives North Korea its first opportunity to test its latest KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles against Western air defense systems in real combat. According to South Korean officials, their technicians traveled with the missiles to find flaws and collect data that they would then take home.
We will remind
The foreign ministers of 10 countries and the EU condemned military cooperation between the DPRK and Russia, including the deployment of North Korean troops. The countries called on Pyongyang to stop helping Moscow and withdraw its troops.