Satellitenbilder zeigen „dramatischen“ Anstieg des Schienenverkehrs an der Grenze zwischen Nordkorea und Russland: Bericht

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  2. Well since North Korea is liquidating it’s arms to Russia, South Korea can retaliate by supplying it’s (superior) arms to Ukraine.

    Very desperate and self destructive behavior on display here

  3. No surprise here media coverage said it was happening I suppose the only confusion may be that for the first time since Putin started his genocide of Ukrainians something he said turns out to be true

  4. NK getting that money, money must flow, even in North Korea.

  5. That’s it; the whole war was initiated by clandestine enrichment scheme of NK’s weapon industry!

  8. There was news that NK had stopped their nuclear reactors last week, assuming they were ready to build bombs. Could they be shipping said nuclear bomb(s) to the Middle East?

  10. And so the contest for who has the shittiest weapons has started

  11. Wonder if there’s a corresponding surge at the China, North Korean border.

  12. The world is a powder keg and there are sparks all around.

  13. With all the shit happening in the world right now, it makes you wonder if a global conflict is about to kick off. Seems like nations are moving their chess pieces around that could spark a world war based on alliances.

  14. Something to keep in mind is the NK army spends a huge percentage of its “training” just doing basic farming; so they can eat.

    Also, NK doesn’t have a tradition of precision manufacturing, access to modern manufacturing equipment, and a top-down centrally planned system which makes impossible demands. But not meeting these impossible demands requires “innovative” thinking.

    So, if you are told to produce 10,000 152mm shells per month, you produce 10,000 152mm things which look a lot like shells. Then you take the few working ones and put them on top of the pile.

    Making most military equipment isn’t that hard. Any idiot with a lathe can make a mortar or artillery shell casing. But, only if you have the metal. Things like the fuses require a variety of fairly simple ingredients, but again, you need those ingredients.

    Or you fill warehouses with empty crates. Everybody knows the game. If some artillery battalion is told they were delivered 10,000 shells and gets mostly empty boxes, they report, “Yup, 10,000 shells, check.” Then a week later, they report, “Training complete. 10,000 shells fired.” They are happy to not fire 10,000 shells as they know most of their guns can’t handle this sort of load as the “high-quality steel” was rusting and pitted the day it was delivered and every time they fire, some important-looking part falls off.

    They also know that maybe 1 in 10 shells which work at all will be problematic.

    I was told by a soviet era soldier they had to take their grenades apart for some years to make sure they didn’t get the IDE grenades. (these have a zero delay fuse).

    The Ukrainians captured some spetsnaz demolition kits which had that wax paper around bricks of explosives. But inside were just blocks of wood.

    Even worse, I suspect some of the NK leadership aren’t stupid. They know putin’s days are numbered. They want access to some recent era russian tech. Probably jets and missiles. Thus, they are going to be happy to ship crates of jukebox parts in exchange for this tech. They get the tech today, and then the stuff they are shipping has to cross all of russia by train. Maybe the first batch or two aren’t the worst. But as soon as they get their hands on the tech, the leadership will block calls from russia which complain about getting defective crap.

    But this is where an other layer can kick in. If you are some senior russian commander, do you really want to tell putin that his glorious deal with the NK government was bullshit? Or are you going to just tell your men, “Pick through this junk and find anything useful.” and proceed to report to putin, “Glorious thanks to our NK comrades.”?

    Also, it would behoove the NK “representatives” to throw a little something something, to the russians responsible for auditing what gets shipped.

    I suspect the russians will make do with whatever they get, but I am willing to bet that it won’t be as helpful as it seems on paper.

  15. “Hey, remember all that stuff we gave you? Well we need it back” – Vlad, probably

  17. I think all the mocking, while done with good intentions, is not helpful for Ukraine as it makes the enemy seem small and weak. Shitty weapons still kill and Ukraine still needs a lot of support. Listen to what they need and supply them. Make sure you vote for politicians who want to supply them.

  20. You know Russia is pathetic when they have to go to North Korea for help

  21. Ukraine is getting spare old cruise missiles from the UK and France that they were looking to dispose of. Russia is getting WW2 level artillery shells from North Korea. Perfect metaphor on how things are going.

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