May 14, 2024
- Russia is believed to be using North Korean missiles and shells in its invasion of Ukraine.
- North Korean shells are often defective and blow up before being fired, reports claim.
- South Korean intelligence said Monday it suspects the weapons may date from the 1970s.
Russia is using North Korean artillery shells in its invasion of Ukraine that may have been made in the 1970s, South Korean media reported.
South Korean intelligence, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), told news agency Yonhap that it’s reviewing reports that North Korea has supplied its ally Russia with weapons made five decades ago.
“The NIS is analyzing the relevant circumstance in detail and also continues to track overall military cooperation between North Korea and Russia,” the spy agency said.
Ukraine, the US, and the UN have all accused North Korea of handing Russia millions of shells and other weapons that are being used in its campaign in Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine are firing tens of thousands of shells a day in what has become a grinding attritional campaign.
Russia is boosting the number of shells it is capable of producing domestically to keep up with demand, but in the meantime, it has turned to ally North Korea for help.
According to a report by the US Congress earlier in May, North Korea provided “10,000 shipping containers of ammunition or related materials (potentially containing more than 3 million rounds of artillery ammunition) to Russia since October 2023.”
But Ukrainian officials in December said the North Korean shells are often defective and have blown up before being fired, damaging Russian artillery and mortars and even killing troops.
Russia has also used North Korean ballistic missiles to target Ukrainian cities, but according to a Ukrainian official earlier in May, about half of them fly off course.
The NIS, Yonhap reported, also said that it is monitoring the illicit shipment of missile parts to North Korea amid concerns it’s using them to build new weapons.
https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-shells-used-by-russia-from-1970s-report-2024-5
Let’s reiterate: Ammo made in north korea, fifty years ago. I would never expect anything coming from the darkest shithole on this planet to be any good.
I’m very glad it’s not the other way around and Ukraine had to use such junk. Some of our stuff we give Ukraine is also not the newest, but the quality and storage conditions are far better.
You would think after it has been proven that Iran, China, Belarus and North Korea are helping Rusha, the good ol’ USA would step up to defeat that axis of evil. Especially when it is the Ukrainians doing all the fighting! I have to believe (probably quietly) that the Pentagon is itching to knock down all 5 of these geopolitical enemies and arm Ukraine to the teeth.
I can imagine that, too, Red. It must make them sick to their stomach, being forced to watch the continued jellyfishness of Biden.
Meanwhile, the ice cream lover is allowing villages to be destroyed on the border because Ukrainians can’t fight back. Not the finest hour of Biden’s career.
Not to mention no single F-16 or F-4 from the US to this day.
They are coming, sometime in the next 10 years.
Yeah, after, say, Albania gets them. 🙄
Rheinmetall profits are up by 60%. War is good for making money, so dragging it out makes even more money. Cynical I know, but I can think of any other reason why the drip, drip of weapons to Ukraine.
Oh, come on, F1, it’s really faaaaar out to believe the German government cares about profits of German companies! Our politicians are waaaay too ignorant for that! A good friend of mine, manager in a smaller military-industrial business, told me several times that he got no support from his government at all, when it could have made a difference. That’s totally diffetent here than in France or the US!
So, really, Rheinmetall is succeeding DESPITE, not because of the German government.
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In Germany, anything that is military or related to the military is avoided, much like the devil avoids holy water.
He even missed the chance to immediately deliver a Patriot battery with the very first delivery! What to think of such a guy? Is he a fool or only an ignorant, lazy asshole? 🙄
He’s the president of the last remaining superpower on earth. 🥴
That sounds impressive, but somehow he doesn’t really live up to the expectations which come with that, me thinks. 🤒🤔
I was sarcastic.
Look at our disgusting Afghanistan fiasco and you know who Joe Biden is.
I have a hard time thinking about the finest hour in his career. No, curling up under his desk in fear whenever the runt rattles his rusty little nuke saber is not the finest.