When Russia goes to the North Korean leader Kim Jong -un, I hope he can help Russia to win a war with Ukraine, and it brings a huge procurement list, including 1 million fire shells, which is used to target southern and eastern trenches.The Ukrainian troops in the container, as well as dozens of missiles in North Korea, have fewer tests.
Now that these weapons have been put into use, they are deeply worried about American and European officials. They are worried that at a very fragile moment in Ukraine, North Korea's ammunition may play an important role on the battlefield.
Although many shells in North Korea are proven to be useless -some seem to be manufactured decades ago -but they gave Russians a fire to the Ukraine army. At the same time, the Ukrainian army isSupply implementation distribution.European countries have promised to provide a lot of supply to Ukraine, but it seems that they can only put together about 300,000 shells.
However, the most worrying about the NATO headquarters from the Pentagon to Brussels is the missile.In an interview, several officials said they were worried that Russia would hope to overwhelm the air defense system in the West by missiles.Although the number of missiles transferred in North Korea so far, there may be less than 50 missiles, but American and European officials believe that there may be more in the future.
Unlike artillery shells, the missiles transported by North Korea are not old -fashioned equipment.Analysis of the "conflict of military reserve research", which recorded the weapons used by Russia in the Ukraine War, showed that its missiles provided to Russia are the latest.U.S. officials say that the accuracy of these missiles is no less accurate than Russia's homemade equipment.U.S. officials said that around the New Year, Russia launched three Korean missiles to the Ukraine position, and they believed that more missiles were used on Sunday.
In South Korea, officials and analysts said that the Ukrainian war is providing what it needs to be urgently needed for North Korea: a test field, which can observe the new missile weapons designed to conflict with South Korea and the United States.How does the air defense system perform?
On the second anniversary of the war, Russia began to ask North Korea for help, which shows that Russia itself is difficult to keep up with the pace of consumption of weapons reserves on both sides.Russia also bought drones from Iran. According to reports, Russia is also seeking Iran's missiles -although there is no evidence that it has gained these missiles.
Most of the missiles launched to Ukraine are still produced by Russia.However, US officials said that if North Korea increases supply, Ukraine may be forced to launch valuable air defense missiles. If Congress does not approve additional military appropriations, the development of this situation may cause devastating blows to Ukraine.From North Korea's imports, they particularly shocked NATO's main members. They refused to comment publicly, but they said that they were worried that when Ukraine was not sure when or who to get the next batch of weapons supply, the input of North Korean weapons may be possible.It will cause particularly great trouble.
At present, Ukraine's air defense system is quite strong.Two senior U.S. officials revealed that last Tuesday, the US Supreme Commander of Europe, Christopher Kavali, told US Secretary of Defense Laud Austen that he believes that the Ukrainian army has sufficient air defense capabilities to survive this winter.
But if North Korea increases missile transportation and the US Congress fails to pass additional assistance to Ukraine, this consideration may change.
At present, Russia has won dozens of North Korean missiles and hopes to get more.According to official Korean media reports, Russian President Putin said he planned to visit North Korea soon.Since late December last year, Russia launched North Korean missiles at least three times to Ukraine, including attacks on December 30, January 2 and January 6.
In addition to missiles, North Korea agreed to the continuous shipping shells of Russia, with a number of millions of rounds.But their quality is very poor.Some artillery shells exploded in the Russian cannon, and many of them fell in areas with scarce smoke and did not cause any casualties.
However, on the battlefield, the number can only have a huge impact.According to the United States and Western experts, Last summer, Ukraine fired up to 7,000 shells a day and managed to destroy Russia's ammunition supply, resulting in about 5,000 shells every day.Experts said that the Ukraine may now launch less than 2000 rounds per day, and with the help of North Korea shells, the firepower of the Russian army has reached about 10,000 shots per day.
But American officials are even more worried about North Korean missiles.
After North Korea's transportation of the first batch of ammunition, US National Security Consultant Jack Shalvin began to step up to strive to strive for support from the international community, condemned such arms transactions, and tried to increase pressure on DPRK and demanded that he would stop the supply of missiles.
U.S. officials believe that since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, the disclosure of the United States' disclosure to North Korea ’s transportation of weapons sometimes has caused Pyongyang to stop or delay more transactions.
North Korea transports the right war to Russia to a key node, because the United States' further support for Ukraine is still unreasonable, and the Parliament Mountain's political debate on this is very fierce.Ukraine's ammunition demand will become the main topic of the Video Conference on Tuesday, and the meeting will be chaired by Austin.
The United States provides a large number of air defense systems and ammunition to Ukraine.U.S. officials also said that these systems, including the "Patriot" missile system -have proven to weaken the destructive power of Russian missile attacks.
But US officials said that if you want to provide more air defense systems and ammunition, Congress will need to approve additional aid plans.
U.S. officials said Ukraine's air defense system is a key issue.Although it was frustrated by Western sanctions at the beginning of the war, Russia had rebuilt industrial capabilities and reserved missiles.But if more North Korean missiles can be obtained, Russia will make it easier to break through Ukraine's defense.
"Ukraine continued to be attacked," John Kobe, spokesman for the National Security Council, said on Wednesday."They continue to be attacked by Russia's artillery shells, air strikes, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones."
The United States will be difficult to stop North Korea from transporting additional arms.North Korea's recent attitude in foreign policy is even better.It has announced that it will no longer seek reconciliation with South Korea, prompting some experts to guess -although the evidence is only fragmented, North Korea may prepare to provoke new conflicts.But there is no doubt that North Korea has been committed to strengthening relations with Russia.
However, the nature of the reconstruction relationship between the two countries cannot be clear.Russia promised to provide a series of technologies in exchange for North Korean ballistic missiles, including aircraft and advanced technology knowledge.However, U.S. officials believe that Russia has not yet provided weapons or additional ballistic missile technology to the DPRK.