“For the past seven years, Pyongyang has had to pay a high premium for the oil products it needs, as it relied on a complex and expensive network of criminal brokers and mid-sea ship-to-ship transfers,” said Go.

“But now, it appears it has secured a steady supply of oil either at a heavy discount or as direct payment for the munitions it is supplying to Moscow,” he added. “That is going to free up resources for North Korea’s armed forces and its nuclear weapons programme.”

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[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

two countries trading on the free market™? imagine the horror! —the us probably

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 20 points 9 months ago

Oh, but we have a pathological need to smash people we don't like! Of course we don't want the free market because then the free market doesn't need us.

[+] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Salph@infosec.pub 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of? Then proceeded to sanction to hell because it dared to not be capitalist and allow the US's capitalist class to extract from it?

Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that's currently committing a genocide in Palestine right now — survives is a crime against humanity. What has the DPRK done other than trying to survive under the brutal US sanctions that does nothing but harm its working class population?