Posted on 11/21/2024 5:48:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.
The oil is payment for the weapons and troops Pyongyang has sent Moscow to fuel its war in Ukraine, leading experts and UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, have told the BBC.
These transfers violate UN sanctions, which ban countries from selling oil to North Korea, except in small quantities, in an attempt to stifle its economy to prevent it from further developing nuclear weapons.
Four former members of a UN panel responsible for tracking the sanctions on North Korea have told the BBC the transfers are a consequence of increasing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang.
“These transfers are fuelling Putin’s war machine – this is oil for missiles, oil for artillery and now oil for soldiers,” says Hugh Griffiths, who led the panel from 2014 to 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Thanks to the glory of communism, North Korea has what might be one of the lowest rates of car ownership in the world. Although the government doesn’t release official stats, the best estimate is that there are fewer than 30,000 vehicles on the road—in a country of nearly 24 million people.
The Korean war was fought for this? Scotty, beam me up!
Russia had to cut off their oil supply to Cuba, and now the country is having nationwide blackouts.
“..payment for weapons and troops...”
There are many photos and videos from the battlefields all over internet, foreign reporters are in every sector but no photos or videos of North Korean troops have surfaced.
Could this be another hoax??
A report can’t find. A study can find and then a report can inform.
What are they going to do to Russia, sanction them? Lol.
I guess we’ve pinned down the price for a (semi)trained soldier these days.
Kind of a two-fer, isn’t it?
One million barrels of oil on the wall,
one million barrels of oil.
And if the Norks don’t send Russia more troops,
999,000 barrels of oil on the wall.
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