Russia gives North Korea a million barrels of oil, report finds

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 01:55:31 | Updated at 2024-11-22 08:11:28 6 hours ago

Russia gives North Korea a million barrels of oil, report finds
BBC News ^ | November 21, 2024 | By Jean Mackenzie

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.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

~$70,000,000 for 10k troops. Not a bad deal.

2 posted on 11/21/2024 5:50:39 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )

To: Oldeconomybuyer

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!

3 posted on 11/21/2024 5:53:20 PM PST by Fungi

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