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    Good, if true. The DPRK has been forbidden from importing oil for far too long. Now the US can’t do anything to Russia any more economically, so Russia doesn’t have to respect the sanctions and import bans on the DPRK.

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      My god it must be freeing to be able to ignore US sabre rattling

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      Indeed, I’m very excited about this development. I still think that DPRK needs to develop its own nuclear industry in the long run though and become self sufficient in energy. In the near term though, oil from Russia will be a huge boon.

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        Oil would help the DPRK a lot. DPRK only has about 28% arable land. Motorised arm machinery would help them a lot. I hope the oil keeps flowing to them.

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          Fertilizer too. Lack of oil always also means lack of fertilizer, which is devastating.

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            Pretty sure Russia is already sending them some, seeing as Russia is the world’s #1 producer of it.

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    A new level of contempt for sanctions

    Not high enough still. The Russians should openly break every sanction they can and call it retaliation for American salami tactics.

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      north korea consumes 18k barrels per day according to cracker sources, this is a huge boom for them. They were capped at 500k oils per year due sanctions.

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    oh how evil of them to break UN sanctions with the specific purpose of strangling the korean economy 😞

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    Our media says they give them a tiger and 40 chickens or something bizarre like that lmao

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    Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.

    The first oil transfer documented by the Open Source Centre in a new report, was on 7 March 2024, seven months after it first emerged Pyongyang was sending Moscow weapons.

    Not that we care, but these Anglo non profits are basically just talking heads for the military. Who the feck knows what the truth is.

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      My guess is, when two maximally demonised by western media states are doing some highly nefarious giving things, especially oil which is the holy grail of US brain and just “giving” it is sacrilege, then in reality they are trading.

      Of course this is not what is implied here, they 100% mean this is payment for the so far completely invisible 1000, 10000, 13000, 100000 DPRK soldiers doing invisible things in Ukraine.

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    Russia: and the best part of this plan is no one can stop me.

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    I don’t believe you BBC, but inshallah and more yet.