“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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[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So now we have proof that both the sanctions against North Korea and Russia work.

Before the sanctions against Russia there was very little interest from Russia in selling oil to North Korea. Suddenly Russia is all for trading with North Korea even though the Russian economy is booming (at least according to Putin and his friends).

If things were all a-okey in Russia, why would they even bother buying artillery ammunition from North Korea one might wonder.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

sanctions work

Did not realize the goal of sanctions was to strengthen ties between Russia and north Korea, and provide NK with economic relief.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LoL. What a ridiculous take. The answer is because DPRK, like Ukraine, occupies a buffer zone between Russia and the West. The stronger DPRK is, the safer Russia is, simple as that.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

I love how all the mainstream western media openly admits that Russian economy is in fact doing fine, and Russia is producing 3x more shells than all of the west combined, but here you are with your galaxy brain take.