North Korea sends over 5 million artillery shells to Russia

North Korea is estimated to have shipped containers carrying more than 5 million artillery shells to Russia, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said, amid persistent concerns about escalating tensions. military cooperation between the two nations.

Among the shipments were containers that can hold around 5.2 million artillery shells as well as a large number of short-range ballistic missiles, Shin Won-sik said in an interview with the Japanese newspaper. Yomiuri Shimbun.

In 2014, the two Koreas exchanged machine-gun fire across the border after the North tried to shoot down balloons carrying propaganda leaflets critical of its regime.

North Korea has expressed outrage over anti-Pyongyang leaflets and propaganda broadcasts by South Korea over loudspeakers near the tense border, as North Korean authorities fear that an influx of outside information could pose a threat to Kim Jong-un’s regime.

The reclusive country has launched More than 3,000 balloons with trash cross the borderon more than 10 occasions since the end of May, in an eye-for-an-eye measure against pamphlets.

Shin stressed that trilateral security cooperation among South Korea, the United States and Japan against North Korean threats has never been more important, adding that the three nations are in the final stages of agreeing on a joint document institutionalizing such efforts.