South Korean National Security Advisor Shin Won-sikreported this Friday that North Korea received anti-aircraft missiles from Russia and other air defense systems in exchange for sending its troops to the Ukrainian front to fight alongside Russian troops.
“We believe that Russia provided anti-aircraft equipment and missiles to strengthen Pyongyang’s vulnerable air defenses,” Shin explained in an interview with South Korea’s SBS network when asked what the Kim regime Jong-un would receive in exchange for sending his troops. in the Kursk region of Russia.
In recent weeks, Pyongyang has sent a few 10,000 soldiers to support the Russian army in the invasion of Ukraine, according to NATO, the United States and South Korea.
Shin, who served as national defense minister until last September, also said that after North Korea’s failed attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit in May, “Moscow had already made public its intention to providing support (to the North) in the form of satellite-related technologies and is said to have transferred various military technologies.
Also financial assistance
The South Korean national security adviser added that Seoul believes thatand “there was also (Russian) economic aid in different forms.”
Last year, Pyongyang sent large quantities of weapons to Moscow for use in its invasion of Ukraine, and the two sides in turn signed a strategic alliance treaty in June that calls for to help each other in the event of an attack.
North Korea has reportedly decided to send some 10,000 of its soldiers to Kursk – a Russian region where Ukrainian forces managed to penetrate last August – to support Russia by invoking the said agreement.
This week, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed that Pyongyang had also exported rocket launchers and mobile artillery to Russia and that some North Korean soldiers appear to have previously participated in combat operations against Ukraine, integrated into Russian airborne and maritime units.
For its part, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal assured Thursday that a A high-ranking North Korean general was injured in a Ukrainian attack in Kursk.
