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North Korea sends Russia artillery rounds for satellite advice: S Korea

North Korean and Russian officials - including leader Kim Jong Un (left) and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) - have met several times over the past few months [Foreign Ministry/Reuters]

North Korea is supplying munitions to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine in return for satellite technology, South Korea has said.

Pyongyang has supplied Moscow with more than one million artillery shells since early August, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported on Wednesday. In return, Russia is assumed to be providing technology and know-how to North Korea, which is making a third effort to launch a satellite following two failures.

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