Russia seeking to buy North Korean ammunition reflects its diplomatic isolation and military shortages arising from its war on Ukraine, says Pusan National University’s Robert Kelly.
in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok. News reports suggest the summit’s purpose is a trade of North Korean ammunition for Russian military technology.
That Russia is nonetheless seeking to buy presumably sub-standard weapons from a backward economy like North Korea is rather startling. This means that Russia’s own high-quality arms sector is unable to keep up with the quantitative demands of the war. The good news for Russia is that North Korea’s military is modelled on the now-defunct Red Army of the Soviet Union. So North Korea weapons and ammunition should integrate relatively easily into the post-Soviet technologies used by the modern Russian army.
Russia and China do not want Southern-led unification of the Korean peninsula, but they are also nervous, like the rest of the world, about a spiralling, unchecked North Korean nuclear missile programme. Our knowledge of North Korea’s WMD limitations is mixed, but a few likely areas for trade include submarines, missile guidance and re-entry technology.
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