And EU still can’t agree on contracts for its million shell initiatives
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing Wednesday with intelligence officials.
Both Pyongyang and Moscow have denied U.S. and South Korean claims that the North has been transferring arms supplies to Russia.
According to lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, the South Korean National Intelligence Service believes the North shipped more than a million artillery shells to Russia through ships and other transport means since early August to help boost Russia’s warfighting capabilities in Ukraine. Those shells would roughly amount to two months’ worth of supplies for the Russians, Yoo said.
The agency believes North Korea has been operating its munitions factories at full capacity to meet Russian munition demands and has also been mobilizing residents to increase production, Yoo said. There are also signs that North Korea dispatched weapons experts to Russia in October to counsel Russian officials on how to use the exported North Korean weapons.
The United States, South Korea and Japan [issued a joint statement](https://apnews.com/article/korea-us-japan-russia-munitions-ukraine-9e3b0195330581779ae69cd47da1d818) on Oct. 26 that strongly condemned what they described as North Korea’s supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia, saying that such weapons shipments sharply increase the human toll of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
The White House had earlier said that North Korea had delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia. The White House released images that it said showed the containers were loaded onto a Russian-flagged ship before being moved via train to southwestern Russia.
Why don’t they sink or destroy them on route if they know it’s moving
South Korea should ship 1 mil shells to Ukraine to make it even, show the world who has the best artillery ammo.
>There are also signs that North Korea dispatched weapons experts to Russia in October to counsel Russian officials on how to use the exported North Korean weapons
the Great russian army, taking lessons from north korea ….
Hope the remembers this the next time these jerk offs go begging for food aid
All the shells in the world mean nothing if your artillery pieces get taken out by the dozens on the daily.
Surprisingly no 007-style fanfare is needed to obtain this intel: North Korea and Russia have a direct train link which can be observed on a nearby Chinese sightseeing platform that is open to tourism. Just count the trains and you know something is going on
But supplying arms is “war escalation”, no? Or is it only from western side?
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Are these shells made to the same standard as those seen being hammered into an MLRS or the RPG grenade that failed to make it across the road seen on video clips on here one wonders.
The Ukrainian officer under the handle Tatarigami_UA made a detailed investigation. See here
>[After extensive research and analysis of North Korean deliveries to Russia using various sources and calculations, we estimate that Russia has received around 2,000 cargo containers containing over half a million artillery shells.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1719379856427761688.html)
Interesting that NK has same ammo stockpile as entire EU together. Woah.
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This is nuts.
And EU still can’t agree on contracts for its million shell initiatives
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing Wednesday with intelligence officials.
North Korea and Russia have been actively [boosting the visibility of their partnership](https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-russia-kim-putin-ukraine-41e72f8e5577d37b8eb463e3c6d661c7) in the face of separate, deepening confrontations with the United States. Their diplomacy — [highlighted by a summit](https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-russia-kim-putin-summit-c44735b9903e6f30e7e8d673ef4c77f3) between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Putin in September — has triggered concerns about an arms arrangement in which North Korea supplies Russia with badly needed munitions in exchange for advanced Russian technologies that would strengthen Kim’s nuclear-armed military.
Both Pyongyang and Moscow have denied U.S. and South Korean claims that the North has been transferring arms supplies to Russia.
According to lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, the South Korean National Intelligence Service believes the North shipped more than a million artillery shells to Russia through ships and other transport means since early August to help boost Russia’s warfighting capabilities in Ukraine. Those shells would roughly amount to two months’ worth of supplies for the Russians, Yoo said.
The agency believes North Korea has been operating its munitions factories at full capacity to meet Russian munition demands and has also been mobilizing residents to increase production, Yoo said. There are also signs that North Korea dispatched weapons experts to Russia in October to counsel Russian officials on how to use the exported North Korean weapons.
The United States, South Korea and Japan [issued a joint statement](https://apnews.com/article/korea-us-japan-russia-munitions-ukraine-9e3b0195330581779ae69cd47da1d818) on Oct. 26 that strongly condemned what they described as North Korea’s supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia, saying that such weapons shipments sharply increase the human toll of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
The statement issued by the countries’ top diplomats came days after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied U.S. claims that his country received munitions from North Korea as he returned from a [two-day trip to Pyongyang](https://apnews.com/article/russia-north-korea-putin-lavrov-4593ab224a99b1ddb6d4db5c332bf92f).
The White House had earlier said that North Korea had delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia. The White House released images that it said showed the containers were loaded onto a Russian-flagged ship before being moved via train to southwestern Russia.
Why don’t they sink or destroy them on route if they know it’s moving
South Korea should ship 1 mil shells to Ukraine to make it even, show the world who has the best artillery ammo.
>There are also signs that North Korea dispatched weapons experts to Russia in October to counsel Russian officials on how to use the exported North Korean weapons
the Great russian army, taking lessons from north korea ….
Hope the remembers this the next time these jerk offs go begging for food aid
All the shells in the world mean nothing if your artillery pieces get taken out by the dozens on the daily.
Surprisingly no 007-style fanfare is needed to obtain this intel: North Korea and Russia have a direct train link which can be observed on a nearby Chinese sightseeing platform that is open to tourism. Just count the trains and you know something is going on
But supplying arms is “war escalation”, no? Or is it only from western side?
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Are these shells made to the same standard as those seen being hammered into an MLRS or the RPG grenade that failed to make it across the road seen on video clips on here one wonders.
The Ukrainian officer under the handle Tatarigami_UA made a detailed investigation. See here
>[After extensive research and analysis of North Korean deliveries to Russia using various sources and calculations, we estimate that Russia has received around 2,000 cargo containers containing over half a million artillery shells.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1719379856427761688.html)
Interesting that NK has same ammo stockpile as entire EU together. Woah.