North Korea (DPRK) has provided Russia with 200 units of long-range artillery, a source from South Korean military intelligence claims, quoted by AFP and BNR.
According to the source, who requested anonymity, in recent months North Korea has also provided a significant amount of ammunition, along with the 11,000 soldiers who joined the fighting near Kursk last fall.
Military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang, formalized last June with a Strategic Partnership Treaty, is deepening, and Seoul does not rule out the DPRK sending Russia more troops and more weapons.
In a report to the parliament in Seoul, the South Korean Ministry of Defense indicated that the supply of weapons and ammunition to Russia has not stopped.
Last Sunday, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un was quoted by state media as saying that support for the "just cause of the Russian army and people will continue".
Seoul is also closely monitoring whether Moscow will provide Pyongyang with advanced military equipment in exchange for the aid. technologies.
South Korean officials fear that with such technologies, North Korea could improve its intercontinental ballistic missiles and acquire nuclear submarines.