Cooperation between North Korea and Russia continues to strengthen

South Korea's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) warns that North Korea has sent about 28,000 containers of weapons and artillery shells to Russia.

If we count individual 152 mm shells, the number of shells delivered is estimated to have reached over 12 million, the intelligence report says.

What is important to understand is that in the last year alone, North Korea has transferred conventional weapons and about 13,000 troops to Russia to support Moscow's military efforts.

It is possible that the Kim Jong-un regime will send additional troops to Russia in July or August, a Seoul spy agency has learned.

Russian propagandists claim that North Korea will send 5,000 "military construction workers" and 1,000 "sappers" to Kursk, Russia, where the Ukrainian army is conducting its operation.