North Korea supplies Russia with 12 million rounds of 152 mm shells: South Korea

Seoul: North Korea has persisted to offer Russia with artillery shells to toughen its warfare in opposition to Ukraine, which amounts to more than 12 million rounds of 152 mm shells, in step with South Korea’s militia intelligence authorities Sunday. North Korea is believed to bear supplied around 28,000 containers containing weapons and artillery shells so some distance, in step with a file by the Protection Intelligence Agency (DIA) submitted to a lawmaker of the predominant opposition party.

“If calculated with 152 mm single shells, the sequence of equipped shells are presumed to bear reached more than 12 million,” the DIA below the defence ministry said.

Since October remaining yr, North Korea has supplied passe weapons and around 13,000 troops to Russia to toughen Moscow’s warfare efforts.

North Korea is doubtless to send further troops to Russia in July or August, Seoul’s survey agency said in unhurried June. Russia’s media reported that the North will send 5,000 militia building workers and 1,000 sappers to Kursk to toughen reconstruction efforts.

On June 26, after Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu visited Pyongyang and met North Korean chief Kim Jong-un early remaining week, Russian media reported that Pyongyang plans to send hundreds of militia building workers to Russia’s Kursk entrance line.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) also eminent that North Korea has supported Russia by offering over 10 million artillery shells, missiles and long-vary weapons, in change for economic cooperation and technical toughen from Moscow.

North Korea’s troop dispatch and weapons toughen bear vastly contributed to Russia’s warfare efforts, the NIS said, at the side of that Russia in the intervening time controls about 81 per cent of the four Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Luhansk.

The NIS also said Ukrainian intelligence authorities are elevating the likelihood that Russia may begin an offensive between July and August.

Relating to the then concern in the Middle East, the NIS had issued warnings of the potential of renewed warfare between Israel and Iran despite the ceasefire.