DPRK transfers almost 5 million artillery shells to Russia, says Seoul

He said this in an interview with Bloomberg.

Shin Won-sik said in an interview with Bloomberg News that Seoul has detected at least 10,000 shipping containers being sent from North Korea to Russia, which could hold as many as 4.8 million artillery shells of the likes that Putin has used in his bombardment of Ukraine.

"It is expected that Putin will seek closer security cooperation with North Korea, especially on military supplies such as artillery shells, which are necessary to seize the chance of victory," Shin said.

He added that North Korea has sent dozens of ballistic missiles to help Putin attack Ukraine.

In exchange for the ammunition, Russia sent North Korea technology to help in its plans to deploy a number of reconnaissance satellites, as well as other weapons such as tanks and aircraft.

• Earlier it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to pay a working visit to North Korea in the near future, and then visit Vietnam.
• Senior officials of South Korea and the United States held an emergency phone call over the possible upcoming visit of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to North Korea.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia may "reconsider its post-Soviet policy" on the transfer of missile and nuclear technology to North Korea.