Kirby says North Korea has delivered arms to Russia for use in Ukraine️

Meanwhile... Remember when we were told Russia will run out of arms and ammunition, certainly before NATO does and the war will be over

Kirby says North Korea has delivered arms to Russia for use in Ukraine️



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www.newsweek.com...

North Korea has started shipping military equipment to Russia for its war effort in Ukraine and the United States believes Moscow may be supplying Pyongyang with military assistance in return, a senior White House official said Friday.

Between Sept. 7 and Oct. 1, Pyongyang shipped more than 1,000 containers of military equipment from Najin, North Korea to Dunay, Russia, according to National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby. He did not spell out how the United States obtained the information.

The equipment was moved by rail to a Russian ammunition facility in the town of Tikhoretsk in southwestern Russia, roughly 180 miles from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

"We condemn the DPRK for providing Russia with this military equipment," Kirby said, referring to North Korea.

Sounds like forever wars to infinity and beyond

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LOL

North Korea junk

Most equipment is from WWII.


a reply to: putnam6

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
LOL

North Korea junk

Most equipment is from WWII.


a reply to: putnam6

Yea, sure it is, if you say so, right?

A country doesn't make billions selling junk arms

nationalinterest.org...

According to a 2019 UN report, North Korea has developed a sophisticated criminal network to continue selling arms through a diverse cast of proxies, front companies, and foreign middlemen. In recent years, North Korea became a leading arms supplier to the Houthi movement in Yemen, as well as militant groups in Uganda and Sudan, mainly by funneling its merchandise through a Syrian company registered to arms trafficker Hussein al-Ali. Pyongyang has likewise succeeded in cultivating valuable ties at the highest echelons of the Libyan Defense Ministry, resulting in an arms contract that O Chol Su, the Deputy Minister of DPRK’s Ministry of Military Equipment, described as necessary “for the required defence systems and ammunition needed to maintain stability of Libya.”

North Korea also heads a robust maritime smuggling ring. In what the UN described as the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” customs officials found a cache with 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades aboard a North Korean vessel en route to Egypt. As it later turned out, the client was none other than the Egyptian Armed Forces themselves; Egypt’s military ordered the North Korean munitions through a complex web of Egyptian business proxies.

Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

North Korean tech is 2 generations behind US tech.

a reply to: putnam6

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

North Korean tech is 2 generations behind US tech.

a reply to: putnam6

So it's aged out of the ability to kill?

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

North Korean tech is 2 generations behind US tech.

a reply to: putnam6

Lol didn't you all say the same thing about Russia?

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

a reply to: putnam6

Okay, So this doesn't help Russia continue to fight Ukraine in any way shape, or form?

So all of this is fear-mongering by the West or is it just a play to get more financing? Because respectfully isn't being reported as no big deal. It's not exactly a slow news day and yet everybody is on it to varying degrees.

What am I missing? and thank you for your service



www.economist.com...

The sight of North Korea’s chubby leader, Kim Jong Un, shaking hands with Vladimir Putin on September 13th—having travelled by train to a spaceport in Russia’s far east to discuss selling its dictator a stash of North Korean weapons—was remarkable both on its own terms and for what it said about the business of selling arms. The world’s five biggest arms-sellers (America, Russia, France, China and Germany) account for more than three-quarters of exports. But up-and-coming weapons producers are giving the old guard a run for their money. They are making the most of opportunities created by shifting geopolitics. And they are benefiting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Kim’s trip to Russia followed a visit to Pyongyang in July by Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister, who wanted to see if North Korea could provide gear that would help his country’s faltering war effort. North Korea would love to find buyers for its kit. And few regimes are willing to sell Russia arms. China has so far been deterred from providing much more than dual-purpose chips (although it could yet channel more lethal stuff through North Korea)

It's amazing how the wrong person leading the USA is so bad for the world.

ONE MAN.

originally posted by: carewemust
It's amazing how the wrong person leading the USA is so bad for the world.

ONE MAN.

I agree with you entirely. We just disagree who that wrong person is.

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

North Korean tech is 2 generations behind US tech.

a reply to: putnam6

Respectfully doesn't tech only really matter on sophisticated defense systems?

A '70s AK47 will kill you just as dead as one made in 2020. No upgrades needed

Not to mention Russia just needs those basic weapons to arm their new recruits to throw into the meat grinder, thus extending the war. What Russia really needs is artillery shells, fairly basic munitions is it not?


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“While access to such stocks may prolong the conflict, it is unlikely going to change the outcome,” he added.

Both Ukraine and Russia have expended massive numbers of shells, and have looked to allies and partners around the world to refill their ammunition stockpiles.

Russia fired 10-11 million rounds last year in Ukraine, a Western official estimated on Friday.

Among the ammunition that the U.S. has provided Ukraine are shells with advanced capabilities, such as the Excalibur, which uses GPS guidance and steering fins to hit targets as small as 3 metres (10 feet) from up to 40km (25 miles) away.

North Korea's offering is likely to be less high-tech but accessing those stocks would likely significantly increase Russia's capabilities in the short term, while North Korean production lines would help in the longer term, said Siemon Wezeman, of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

"Almost none of the ammunition is in any way 'advanced' - it would feed the traditional Russian barrage type use of artillery but not provide Russia with any precision ammunition," he said.

To have minimal stocks for all their artillery in 100mm-152mm calibre would mean North Korea would have at least millions of shells stockpiled, Wezeman said, and just to replenish any ammunition fired in exercises or demonstrations will need some serious production capacities.

The White House has said Russia wants to buy "literally millions" of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea.

QUANTITY OVER QUALITY

Eh, they might as well have sent rocks and slingshots; the NK stuff is no match for the precision weaponry being provided to Ukraine. It might be lethal, but it won't change the longterm face of the conflict.

NK has thousands of T54, T55, and T 70 tanks WWII junk.

1 submarine that barely functions
1 battleship that bever leaves port
WWII Artillery pieces


No nukes.

All they have are millions of brain washed soldiers.

I think Texas could possibly kick NK butt.


a reply to: putnam6

According to a 2019 UN report, North Korea has developed a sophisticated criminal network to continue selling arms through a diverse cast of proxies, front companies, and foreign middlemen. In recent years, North Korea became a leading arms supplier to the Houthi movement in Yemen, as well as militant groups in Uganda and Sudan, mainly by funneling its merchandise through a Syrian company registered to arms trafficker Hussein al-Ali. Pyongyang has likewise succeeded in cultivating valuable ties at the highest echelons of the Libyan Defense Ministry, resulting in an arms contract that O Chol Su, the Deputy Minister of DPRK’s Ministry of Military Equipment, described as necessary “for the required defence systems and ammunition needed to maintain stability of Libya.”

I couldn't help but chuckle; I've lived enough decades have seem the US arm terrorists around the world, then eventually have to declare war on the countries the terrorists destabilized.

There are no 'good guys' in world leadership and war is just a game they plat to keep thier lottery wheel turning.

originally posted by: WeDemBoyz
Eh, they might as well have sent rocks and slingshots; the NK stuff is no match for the precision weaponry being provided to Ukraine. It might be lethal, but it won't change the longterm face of the conflict.

You don't think it will make the war last longer? not to mention, let's not forget that American support might dry up here soon and it definitely isn't gonna be at the levels of the past 2 years

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
NK has thousands of T54, T55, and T 70 tanks WWII junk.

1 submarine that barely functions
1 battleship that bever leaves port
WWII Artillery pieces


No nukes.

All they have are millions of brain washed soldiers.

I think Texas could possibly kick NK butt.


a reply to: putnam6

Respectfully, it's much more likely it's small arms and artillery shells than tanks and submarines packed into crates

a reply to: putnam6

I don't really think this delivery makes a dent in the war. The bulk of what was sent was artilary shells...how many artilarysShells fit on a standard boxcar? A couple of thousand, maybe? So, figure, at max, 2-million Shells. That's is about a 20-40 day supply for russia; depending on how much makes it to the frontlines and doesn't get destroyed by Ukraine at ammo dumps. That level of delivery isn't sustainable by NK; hell, the entirety of NATO can't produce that much in a sustainable manner; not at current production levels. At best, this is a bandaid on a bullet wound for the ruskies.

I do not trust ANYTHING coming from this current administration.
If they said "the sky is still blue" , I would have to go see for myself.
But , if it was a cloudy day......

a reply to: putnam6

How quickly the lines have been drawn. Just a handful of years ago people were still talking about investing in Russia and businesses were expanding that way.

And now they are closest allies with Iran and North Korea, literally the axis of evil.

originally posted by: Mahogany
a reply to: putnam6

How quickly the lines have been drawn. Just a handful of years ago people were still talking about investing in Russia and businesses were expanding that way.

And now they are closest allies with Iran and North Korea, literally the axis of evil.

Can’t say North Korea without saying China.

Can’t say Iran without saying Barry.

originally posted by: Cohen the Barbarian

originally posted by: DeathSlayer
Yeah I say so.

Former military intelligence officer

North Korean tech is 2 generations behind US tech.

a reply to: putnam6

So it's aged out of the ability to kill?

No, 2gens behind means they can be easily neutralized.

Able and capable are notably different.

Edit/additional thought:

Buying arms from the DPRK is a sign of weak domestic production and over-exertion in Ukraine.

You don’t get arms from them unless you have to.