The Daily Populous Saturday June 15th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by kyivpost.com and submitted by Ask4MD

North Korea has sent at least 10,000 shipping containers with nearly 5 million artillery shells to Russia, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told Bloomberg News.

However, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is likely to ask for more ammunition during his next visit to Pyongyang.

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“Putin is expected to seek closer security cooperation with North Korea, especially military supplies such as artillery shells that are necessary to seize a chance to win,” Shin Won-sik said.

He also added that North Korea has sent dozens of ballistic missiles to Russia.

In exchange for ammunition Russia sent to North Korea technologies which would help it deploy an array of spy satellites as well as conventional arms such as tanks and aircraft, Bloomberg reports.

In February Seoul stated that Russia could receive up to three million artillery shells from North Korea.

The munitions sent by North Korea since Putin and Kim met in Russia in September for a meeting that led to stepped-up trade between the neighbors have likely far outstripped what has been sent to Ukraine by the US and the European Union.

It has allowed the Kremlin’s forces to bombard Ukraine, as it was forced to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies — with aid for Ukraine being held up in the US Congress.

FitEquivalent810 on June 15th, 2024 at 09:17 UTC »

Must be demoralizing to be a russian bred with myths of soviet superiority and suddenly having to fire north korean ammunition because your army and production is garbage.

Abalith on June 15th, 2024 at 08:13 UTC »

One Russians experiences with them: https://x.com/PutinSuxBalls/status/1797532046287667431

"Same bullshit with charges. Everything is done through the devil's asshole, in which apparently these shells are removed, simultaneously smearing them with hellish shit. The weight distribution goes hell, all the walls are plastered with paper, apparently from North Korean political papers from 1987, and generously smeared with Kim Jong il's dristrots of the same years. The charge plug is made in the same way as usual to fuck off and get lost, there is no convenient rope, no fucking way.

In short, the person responsible for supplying this crap, unworthy of being called shells and charges, is clearly a representative of the LGBTQ+ community with a clear bias towards hard BDSM.

I don't know how else to explain why this crap ended up in our country in the first place. I will take money so that your signature does NOT end up in this piece of squalor.

Phew, I spoke out. Thank you for your attention. I'll go brew some chamomile, I need to heal my nerves".

Mikerosoft925 on June 15th, 2024 at 07:27 UTC »

Even if the failure rate is high, it is such a large number that it doesn’t matter if the failure rate is higher than western artillery shells.