Giving Russia weapons from the DPRK can help but hardly change the course of war - the media

North Korea leader Kim Jong -in arrived in Russia on Tuesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin, where US officials say that they expect both parties to continue the weapon agreement. It is believed that North Korea has a large stock of artillery shells and missiles that would be compatible with the weapons of the Soviet times, as well as a similar history of production of such ammunition.

"The size of these storage facilities and their degradation are less clear as the scale of current production, but these stocks can help replenish those stocks that are heavily exhausted in Ukraine," said Joseph Dempsi, a defense researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Although access to such stocks can continue the conflict, it is unlikely to change the result," he added.

Simon Veseman of the Stockholm International Institute for Peace Research, believes that the size of these storage facilities and their degradation is less clear as the scale of current production, but these reserves can help replenish those stocks that are severely exhausted in Ukraine. "Almost no ammunition is in any way" advanced " - it will nourish the traditional Russian use of artillery type, but will not provide Russia with accurate ammunition," he said.

According to Simon Veseman, having minimal reserves for all his artillery 100-152 mm caliber would mean that North Korea will have at least a million projectiles, and to replenish the ammunition, released during exercises or demonstrations, will require serious production capacity. However, Veseman noted that in the provision of a large number of such ammunition, the inaccuracy and sometimes the malfunction of the shells would not be of great importance to the Russians.

"However, this could be a problem if Korean ammunition has such a poor quality that they are simply dangerous to use Russian soldiers - there were evidence that such problems with quality arise with North Korean ammunition," he added. Recall that the United States tried to break Putin's meeting with Kim Jong -in in the Russian Federation. It was also reported that Putin is counting on the supply from the DPRK ammunition for artillery and PTRC.