Hopefully Ukraine’s allies are keeping pace with Russia’s allies in the production of artillery rounds:
North Korea has continued to provide Russia with artillery shells to support its war against Ukraine, which amounts to more than 12 million rounds of 152 mm shells, according to South Korea’s military intelligence authorities Sunday.
North Korea is believed to have provided around 28,000 containers containing weapons and artillery shells to date, according to a report by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) submitted to a lawmaker of the main opposition party.
“If calculated with 152 mm single shells, (the number of supplied shells) are presumed to have reached more than 12 million,” the DIA under the defense ministry said.
If North Korean artillerymen are manning these systems they are gaining so valuable military experience considering how important artillery fire will be during any contingency on the peninsula:
North Korea is estimated to have sent about 200 pieces of long-range artillery to Russia and is likely to send more troops and weapons in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s defense ministry said Tuesday.
The assessment came after South Korea’s spy agency earlier estimated the North to have sent some 11,000 troops to support Russia, of which 300 are believed to have been killed, with some 2,700 others wounded.
N.K. artillery positions open This photo, taken from South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island bordering North Korea in the Yellow Sea, shows the entrances of artillery positions being opened on North Korea’s coast in Hwanghae Province on Oct. 14, 2024, following a North Korean order for its artillery corps near the border to fully prepare to fire, citing the alleged flight of South Korean drones over Pyongyang. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader guides artillery firing drill This photo, provided by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, shows a firing drill by the North Korean Army’s front-line combined artillery units “who have put the enemy’s capital in their striking range” on March 7, 2024, which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided. (Yonhap)
N. Korea test-fires new multiple rocket launcher shells This composite photo, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the North’s Academy of Defence Science test-firing 240 millimeter-caliber “controllable” multiple rocket launcher shells the previous day. (Yonhap)
Just another example of how the Kim regime plans to increase tensions during the U.S. Presidential election year:
The gun ports of the coastal artillery (circled in red) on a North Korean island near the Northern Limit Line, a de facto maritime border, remain open, in this photo taken from South Korea’s front-line island of Yeonpyeong on Jan. 7, 2023. (Yonhap)
North Korea fired some 90 artillery shots into waters off its western coast Sunday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of drills near the tensely guarded western border.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the artillery firings into the maritime buffer zone north of Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border in the Yellow Sea, and South Korea’s border island of Yeonpyeong from about 4 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.
The buffer zone was set under a 2018 inter-Korean military accord designed to reduce tensions along the border.
There was no damage to the South Korean military or civilians from the latest firing, a JCS official said, adding that the South Korean military does not plan to hold drills in response.
Live-fire drills South Korea’s multiple launch rocket systems fire during a live-fire exercise at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 46 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on June 7, 2023. (Yonhap)
Constantly threatened by North Korea with 'sea of fire,' South Korea has developed one of the world's most potent artillery systems and they are proving to be a boon for exports https://t.co/t8tINhTivYpic.twitter.com/OkhfDTYxEt
