Ukrainian drones, targeting Russian military sites, are zeroing in on missiles and artillery stockpiles from North Korea, now Russia’s top arms supplier. At the same time, a Ukrainian missile killed six North Korean military officers and wounded three more last week in occupied Ukraine. These are believed to be the first soldiers sent by a foreign government to bolster Russia.
Six weeks ago, a South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency report said that North Korea has sent more than 13,000 shipping containers of arms to Russia over the previous two years. This is equivalent of 6 million 152-millimeter artillery shells. This was double an estimate of 6,700 containers given to reporters only six months earlier by South Korea’s defense minister, Shin Won-sik.
