North Korea is ready to sign an arms supply agreement with Russia.
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The Financial Times writes about this.
Pyongyang can offer ammunition, multiple launch rocket systems and short-range ballistic missiles – all this will help Moscow repel Kyiv’s counter-offensive, the publication writes.
According to the FT, Moscow could pay for North Korean weapons with grain, oil and military technology, as well as foreign currency.
The Russia-North Korea axis complicates the security situation both in Ukraine and on the Korean Peninsula. Cooperation between Russia and North Korea could expand beyond conventional weapons agreements to advanced technologies for satellites, nuclear submarines and ballistic missiles, the newspaper reports expert opinion.
This agreement may be a cover for the supply of Chinese weapons to Russia, which, under the guise of being made in the DPRK, will be transferred to Moscow.
The Financial Times does not write that this could become the main external military-technical resource to support Russia in the war with Ukraine.
The material in the publication was published after Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Pyongyang – the first in the history of relations between Russia and the DPRK, as well as on the eve of Kim Jong In’s previously announced visit to Russia.
On August 30, the White House, citing declassified intelligence, warned that Putin and Kim had exchanged letters discussing a possible arms agreement. White House Speaker John F. Kirby said high-level talks on military cooperation between the two countries were “actively moving forward.”
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield also said that Russia and North Korea are “actively advancing” negotiations on weapons that will be used in the war in Ukraine.
South Korea also notes that North Korea and Russia are agreeing on arms supplies. Seoul believes that one of the purposes of North Korean leader Kim Jong-in’s trip to the country’s large arms factories in July could have been to check the DPRK’s ability to export weapons and ammunition, in particular to Russia.
Source: Racurs
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