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Re: Desperate Putins' Struggle to Prop Up Ruble & China is Russias' Lifeline to Fund
North Koreas' Orient Express Sending Munitions to Russia 'at Scale’
The report says the munitions are regularly loaded on to two Russian ships, the Angara and Maria.
BBC 18 OCT 2023
Kim Jong-un is supplying Vladimir Putin with munitions, warns the report
North Korea is supplying munitions to Russia “at scale” via a so-called “Orient Express”, a new report has warned.
James Byrne, director of RUSI’s Open Source Intelligence Analysis group which undertook the analysis, warned the decision by Kim Jong-un’s regime will have “profound consequences”.
RUSI’s investigation is published just days after US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby accused Pyongyang of supplying up to 1,000 containers of "equipment and munitions" to Moscow in "recent weeks".
The final destination of the shipments appeared to be a munitions depot in the Russian town of Tikhoretsk, roughly 200 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
From here, North Korean weapons and munitions can be shipped to logistics depots on the border of Ukraine for distribution to front line units, the report explained.
It added: “The supply will bolster Russia’s war effort, posing problems for Ukraine and its allies who may need to further increase their support to keep pace with this new reality.
“It also creates a new source of revenue for Pyongyang, which has traditionally used the proceeds of arms sales to develop its own nuclear and ballistic missile programme in violation of UN sanctions.”
The RUSI report, published yesterday, says in recent months, two In recent months, two Russian ships - the Angara and Maria - had multiple trips between the Russian port of Dunai and the North Korean port of Rajin.
Both vessels are owned and operated by companies with links to Russia’s military logistics networks.
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