{"id":56132,"date":"2023-09-05T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56132"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T08:18:01","slug":"north-korea-continues-export-weapons-russia-iran-syria-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-continues-export-weapons-russia-iran-syria-others\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea continues to export weapons to Russia, Iran, Syria and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea is actively smuggling weapons to Russia and other countries, according to multiple sources inside the country recently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe government&#8217;s weapons exports have increased recently,\u201d a Daily NK source in North Korea said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons. \u201cNot only Russia, but many other countries are asking for our weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the source, recent importers of North Korean weapons include Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The source explained that the weapons are usually smuggled aboard ships on the high seas. In most of the states in question, armed groups operating within those states purchase the weapons, which are then transported to China hidden in cargo ships carrying ore. From China, they are shipped to third countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officials from the Defense Ministry\u2019s General Equipment Bureau and the Munitions Industry Department&#8217;s Second Economic Commission have been dispatched to China, where they largely serve as middlemen to facilitate arms smuggling, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia is major purchaser of weapons\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest recent purchaser of North Korean weaponry is Russia. North Korea ships weapons directly to Russia rather than indirectly through other countries, exporting them by train or ship from the port of Rason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea mostly sells ammunition and artillery shells to Russia, though 7.62mm and 5.45mm automatic rifles are major export items as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Rodong Sinmun<\/em> reported on Aug. 6 that leader Kim Jong Un paid onsite guidance visits to key munitions factories from Aug. 3 to 5, including a production factory for large-caliber multiple launch platforms. The media published photos of Kim inspecting weapons himself, including a 7.62mm rifle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe party has directed that North Korea receive wheat, gas and oil from Russia in return for the weapons, and to not accept rubles \u2014 the value of which has collapsed since the war \u2014 when taking cash payments,&#8221; the source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another source inside North Korea claimed that the North Korean government recently received blueprints and process charts for nuclear-related application technologies as payment for weapon sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, North Korea adheres to a principle of refusing to sell new weapon systems recently produced in the country\u2019s munitions factories to overseas customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Older weapons exported overseas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Multiple sources told Daily NK that North Korea is selling older weapons in its existing stocks to overseas customers as it replaces the Korean People\u2019s Army (KPA)\u2019s stockpiles with new weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNot only the KPA, but also the militia, Worker-Peasant Red Guards, Red Youth Guards and other groups are modernizing their weapons, and all the old weapons these organizations had can be exported overseas,&#8221; one of the sources told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a related note, Daily NK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230823-5\/\">reported <\/a>in late August that after Kim Jong Un&#8217;s tour of key munitions factories, workers at the plants received provisions of food, including rice, cooking oil and liquor. In return, they were instructed to \u201crepay the Supreme Leader with loyalty by keeping the factories going at full capacity to boost production.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230831-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is actively smuggling weapons to Russia and other countries, according to multiple sources inside the country recently.\u00a0 \u201cThe government&#8217;s weapons exports have increased recently,\u201d a Daily NK source in North Korea said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons. \u201cNot only Russia, but many other countries are asking for our weapons.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":51422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646,1618],"tags":[839,1017,1656],"class_list":["post-56132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military","category-north-korea-russia-relations","tag-weapons","tag-russia","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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