Moscow probably provided fuel to Pyongyang for this help.
Since last year North Korea sent about seven thousand containers filled with ammunition and other military equipment to Russia.
This statement was made by South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik, The Times reports.
It is noted that since the beginning of 2022, North Korea has used Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a distraction to intensify weapons testing, and has also joined Moscow in the conflict. After all, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is trying to break out of diplomatic isolation and join a united front against the United States of America.
In exchange, North Korea likely received essential food, economic and military aid aimed at modernizing Kim Chem-in's forces, according to Seoul officials and private experts. Earlier, US and South Korean officials accused Pyongyang of supplying Russia with artillery shells, missiles and other equipment. However, both countries deny the existence of an agreement on arms supplies.
South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said that at first Kim Jong-un relied on ships, but is now increasingly using the railway to supply weapons to the Russian Federation across their land border.
The publication writes that for its assistance, North Korea received more than 9,000 Russian containers, probably filled with aid. Shin expressed suspicion that the Kremlin could be supplying Pyongyang with fuel, perhaps in defiance of UN Security Council sanctions, which severely limit the import of oil and petroleum products into the country.
By the way, Shin Won-sik made his statement hours after the South Korean and Japanese militaries said that North Korea had fired several short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern waters.
Recall that the head of the Kharkov regional prosecutor's office, Alexander Filchakov, said that the Russian army bombed Ukraine with North Korean missiles about 50 times. There is one in the Kharkov region officially recorded case of using a Hwasong 11 (KN-23/24) missile.
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