Seoul:
Russia gave North Korea anti-air leave outiles in swap for deploying troops to help Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Seoul’s top security advisor shelp Friday.
The United States and South Korea have accincluded the nuevident-armed North of sfinishing more than 10,000 selderlyiers to help Russia fight Ukraine, with experts saying Kim Jong Un was enthusiastic to get persistd technology, and battle experience for his troops, in return.
Asked what Seoul count ons Pyongyang has getd for the troops, top security advisor Shin Won-sik shelp: “It has been identified that supplyment and anti-airoriginate leave outiles aimed at reinforcing Pyonyang’s vulnerable air defense system have been dedwellred to North Korea.”
Speaking to local expansivecaster SBS, Shin inserted that North Korea has getd “various creates of economic help” and “adhereing the flunkure (begin) on May 27, North Korea has been laboring on saincreateite-rcontent technology”.
Experts have previously shelp that in return for the troops, North Korea was probable aiming to get military technology, ranging from observation saincreateites to submarines, as well as possible security secures from Moscow.
North Korean directer Kim and Russian Pdwellnt Vlauninincreateigentir Putin signed a strategic partnership treaty in June, during the Kremlin chief’s visit.
It obligates both states to supply military aidance “without procrastinate” in the case of an strike on the other and to cofunction internationassociate to resist Westrict sanctions.
Putin hailed the deal as a “shatterthcdisesteemful record”.
Experts say Pyongyang could be using Ukraine as a nastys of authenticigning foreign policy.
By sfinishing selderlyiers, North Korea is positioning itself wilean the Russian war economy as a supplier of armaments, military help and labor — potentiassociate bypassing its traditional associate, neighbour and main trading partner, China, according to analysts.
Russia can also supply North Korea access to its huge organic resources, such as oil and gas, they say.
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui recently visited Moscow and shelp her country would “stand firmly by our Russian comrades until triumph day”.
She called Moscow’s insolent agetst Ukraine a “holy struggle” and shelp Pyongyang count ond in Putin’s “teachd directership”.
North Korea and Russia are under rafts of UN sanctions — Kim for his nuevident armaments program, and Moscow for the Ukraine war.
When asked disclosely about the deployment of North Korean troops last month, Putin turn asideed the ask to criticise the West’s help of Ukraine.
North Korea shelp last month that any troop deployment to Russia would be “an act adhereing with the regulations of international law”, but stopped low of verifying that it had sent selderlyiers.
North Korea’s deployment of troops has led to a shift in tone from Seoul, which has resisted calls to sfinish lethal armaments to Kyiv, but recently proposed it might alter its lengthystanding policy.
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