Putin: So about those weapons
Kim: Yes we would love more weapons
Putin: awkward silence........
Nothing says desperation like going to a country even more sanctioned to buy some weapons.
Asking for help from the worlds most garbage country, an absolute sign things are going well.
...but do we have a missile powerful enough to take out a target at both ends of Putin's table?
I heard drones are all the rage now.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.
Weapons on display at the meeting included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants.
There is concern both in Washington and in Seoul about what North Korea would get in return for such a deal, which may result in increased military cooperation between the two countries in Asia.
The newspaper's diplomatic correspondent, Edward Wong, told BBC News channel that an advance team of North Korean officials had travelled to Vladivostok and Moscow late last month.
They "included security officers who deal with the protocol surrounding travel of the leadership, so that was a strong sign for officials looking at this", Wong said.
That meeting came just months after a summit in Vietnam between Mr Kim and then-US President Donald Trump had failed to make progress on denuclearising the Korean peninsula.
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As viewers of Perun Will know, North Korea has one of the largest stockpiles of artillery shells in the world. Russia uses artillery at a prodigious rate, and can't keep up with its usage.
So Russia gets the older stockpile of artillery shells, which we knew they're going to get, the worrisome thing is what is North Korea going to get from the deal?
If they were smart, food and fuel.
Since they're NK, probably personal enrichment for Kim, and maybe some cold war era nukes.
Money, probably.
Money sure. Probably access to energy reserves, maybe even a pipeline for natural gas to North Korea. But more likely military technology
Which currency?
Rubles are pretty useless at the moment, and for the foreseeable future.
I’m guessing yuan could work for both of them?
North Korea has one of the largest stockpiles of artillery shells in the world.
I'm curious how well preserved those shells are. Russia itself was sending shells to the front that were non-functional because of poor storage. I wonder if North Korea did a better job of preservation.
It's going to be a low percentage, but that's better than nothing, maybe it isn't better than nothing I don't know. The artillery crews aren't going to be super happy about old ammunition I'm sure.
There has also been a history of North Korea screwing over Russia with regards to arms. Recently North Korea hacked Russia to steal hypersonic missile designs and data. Even if the overall percentage of ruined shells is lower, North Korea could choose to send ALL of the ruined ones to Russia with a number good shells, and charge Russia as though all of them are good.
Considering they're the only game in town, I expect their price to be very dear.
The best thing about buying weapons from north Korea is all the artillery pieces come with oxen for maximum battlefield mobility.
But they only shoot south, Russian can't use those
could get 2 of them done for the price of one?
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