Analysts say Russia has everything that impoverished North Korea needs.
It could also seek the transfer of “key technologies, knowledge and manufacturing capacity for North Korea’s arms industry to advance and be more sustainable,” added Dempsey.A 2022 UN report highlighted the role of a North Korean diplomat in Moscow in procuring a range of ballistic missile technologies, and going as far as attempting to get some 3,000 kilogrammes of steel for Pyongyang’s submarine programme.
The Russian Federation and the North held their first summit in 2000, when a joint declaration — which focused on economic cooperation and diplomatic exchanges — was signed. Last week at the United Nations, the United States, Britain, South Korea and Japan said any deal to increase cooperation between Russia and North Korea would violate Security Council resolutions forbidding arms deals with Pyongyang — resolutions that Moscow itself had endorsed.
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