There are not many tools: can the West stop North Korea’s cooperation with Putin?

There are not many tools: can the West stop North Korea’s cooperation with Putin Victoria Grabovskaya

North Korea continues to increase military cooperation with Russia. This is evidenced by Vladimir Putin's visit to Pyongyang, which will take place on June 18 and 19.

At the same time, the United States expressed Concern about the deepening of relations between Russia and the DPRK. The head of the Center for Military Legal Studies, Alexander Musienko, told 24 Channel how the United States could prevent a rapprochement between Putin and Kim Jong-un.

The West must show flexibility

Washington it is difficult to prevent the deepening cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. At one time, the United States failed to prevent the emergence of nuclear weapons in the DPRK.

And we want them to prevent this rapprochement. In fact, the US doesn't have many tools. Sanctions and pressure have not worked and will not work. It is impossible to carry out a military operation, at least now, he explained.

One of the possible ways out of the situation, according to Musienko, is to try to come to mutual understanding with China so that it influences North Korea.

It is also possible to find ways of mutual understanding with the DPRK. In particular, in matters regarding lifting sanctions from Pyongyang.

In this The West needs to show flexibility on this issue. Western countries and even Ukraine may come up with proposals, not necessarily public, about not continuing to impose sanctions against North Korea and canceling those that already exist, he noted.

B In exchange, Pyongyang will not supply shells to Russia. Because one of Kim Je-un’s motivations and arguments is that his country is in a poor economic condition, it is unable to sell its own products, and is losing international markets.

” Its only saving path is to sell weapons to Russia, receiving in return both money and food, agricultural products, technology, in particular for satellites. In order to oust Russia from the DPRK, it was necessary to offer the Koreans more profitable ones. conditions“, noted Alexander Musienko.

Cooperation between the DPRK and Russia

• According to the South Korean Ministry of Defense, the DPRK supplied Russia with at least 10 thousand transport containers, which may contain 4.8 million artillery shells.
• North Korean factories for the production of shells and ammunition work 70% for the needs of Russia and only 30% is the share of the state defense order of the DPRK.

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