Potential new Moscow-Pyongyang weapons agreements may cause ripples of instability from Europe to the Pacific.
are thought to run into the thousands, and Moscow's guns have reportedly been muted in recent months due to a combination of logistical challenges and punishing Ukrainian counterbattery fire.
A destroyed Russian self-propelled MSTA-S gun is pictured on Khreshchatyk Street in preparation for Independence Day on August 21, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia has suffered staggering human and material losses in its invasion of Ukrainethat the Kim-Putin summit may do little to ease Russia's battlefield issues."We don't know how much artillery [North Korea] has, and we don't know the quality of this artillery; it seems to be doubtful.
"North Korea is a logical choice" for weapon-starved Russia, Ignatov said."It has solid standards, it has capacity to produce a lot, and it would be quite cheap."on the frontline."Kim is not on a charity mission."If Russia gets something from North Korea, it will not be for free," Ignatov said."Russia will have to give something to Kim."
"If Kim asks for missile technologies, I don't know how Putin would react," Ignatov said, noting the sensitivity of such technology."But if he approves, of course, it will be a very bad evolution of this situation." Any technological leap for North Korea will pose difficult questions for China, which since the 1950s has been Pyongyang's most important and influential foreign partner.
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