North Korea is sending howitzers and missile launchers to Russia, the South Korean intelligence agency (NIS) reported. According to her, staff were probably also sent there to teach how to use new weapons. The NIS also found that about 11,000 North Korean soldiers were deployed in Russia's Kursk region and are already taking part in the fighting.
During a closed-door hearing before the parliamentary intelligence committee on Wednesday, representatives of the national intelligence agency (NIS) said that North Korea exported to Russia 170 mm self-propelled howitzers and 240 mm multiple rocket launchers – said MP Li Seong Kweun, who participated in the meeting.
He noted that, according to intelligence assessment, Pyongyang probably also had to send personnel to teach Russian soldiers how to use the new weapons.
So far, intelligence services have reported that North Korea supplies Moscow with 152 mm artillery shells. According to NIS estimates disclosed at the end of October, the regime provided Russia with approximately 20,000. containers that could hold up to 9.4 million such missiles.
11,000 North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region
The NIS also determined – as it reported on Wednesday at the committee's forum – that approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers had already completed acclimatization training in northeastern Russia and were transferred to the bordering country at the end of October. Ukraine Kursk Oblast.
According to intelligence, the recruits are assigned to a Russian airborne brigade and Marine Corps and undergo tactical and anti-drone training.
Moreover, due to the active involvement of North Korean troops in combat on the front line, intelligence services are trying to establish specific information regarding the operation and the scope of losses suffered by these forces.
NIS representatives also expressed concern that if the war lasts for a long time, Russia's dependence on North Korea and the need for its assistance will increase, which may prompt the Kremlin to transfer to its ally “technologies that it should not transfer,” noted the South Korean Yonhap news agency.
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