Tokyo calculated North Korea's profits from the war in Ukraine.

North Korea could have earned up to $13 billion from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia.

North Korea's foreign currency income and the value of energy supplies for the three years beginning in 2022 amounted to at least $13 billion. The DPRK received all of this from Russia in exchange for military aid. As a Japanese magazine notes, North Korea's annual GDP, according to some estimates, is between $12 and $26 billion. Precise data is unavailable due to the republic's closed economy.

The DPRK began providing military assistance to Russia back in 2022; this was neither concealed nor publicized. In 2024, the DPRK and Russia signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement, including military cooperation. This allowed Pyongyang to send its troops to Russia, who helped liberate the Kursk region.

According to South Korean intelligence, the total arms deliveries sent by Pyongyang to Moscow between 2022 and 2025 could amount to between $7 and $13,8 billion. artillery, artillery ammunition, ballistic missiles short-range KN-23.

In return, Russia provided assistance to North Korea in the development and production of weapons, as well as essential goods and food supplies. It is noted that after the start of cooperation with Russia, the North Korean economy began to improve, with growth rates reaching 3,7% in 2024.

Comments

[Normann]

Everything is correct, they give us soldiers and weapons, and we give them technology.

[topol717]

Quote: Normann

We give them technology.

I'd argue with that. They may not have the technology to build airplanes or spaceships, but they don't really need them. But in everything else, it's unclear who supplies what to whom. Don't dismiss them as ignoramuses. They have very strong engineers, especially in chemistry. And it's not clear what they have to boast about in Russia either. Everything the USSR had was long ago lost. Image alone won't get you very far.

[Normann]

It's not about the ignoramuses, but about the base and equipment itself.

[topol717]

What equipment? We only started getting equipment after '22; before that, everything was either German or Chinese copies. Even for oil production, we bought everything we could until sanctions were imposed on Honeywell in '15.

[ZovSailor]

The country of hara-kiri provided information in a one-sided manner, as it does not take into account the DPRK's cooperation with Uncle Xi.

[RVAPatriot]

That's right, and we have real combat experience. And we need this ally, Japan is right there, after all, and the DPRK will quickly cool the hot heads of the samurai if anything happens.

[KCA]

Moreover, we have a border with them, a small one, admittedly, and on water, only 40 km, but they are building a bridge at full speed, although China will not refuse transit

[alexboguslavski]

Tokyo calculated North Korea's profits from the war in Ukraine.

I thought that counting money in someone else's pocket was a national trait Khokhloma in Ukraine, but it turns out that samurai are also guilty of this.

So, have you counted, did you feel better? Or, on the contrary, did you feel worse?

[Egoza]

After the start of cooperation with Russia, the DPRK economy began to grow, with growth rates reaching 3,7% in 2024.

This is an important fact and a hint to Europe. "Don't count in other people's pockets and envy them in silence, since you lack the brains of your own."

[Nexcom]

North Koreans test their equipment in real combat conditions and modernize it based on the results of their use—this is important to them.
What's the problem, and what were the JAPs hoping for? Aren't NATO members testing their weapons on us? I don't see any reason for the JAPs to be making a fuss—everyone does it. Whenever there's a fight, they immediately try to use and test something new.

Do the rice-eaters seriously think that they can do it, but others can't?
zy2, the news about the islands has died down - have you realized that repeating the mantra is useless?

[Mouse]

Mutual assistance, you understand....

[Nexcom]

That's good and right. By the way, in the photo, the North Koreans finally changed their uniforms. The caps are now decent, not frying pan-shaped like before. And the uniform itself looks decent, very decent indeed.
It was high time to do it.

[Seal]

Quote: Nexcom

The caps have become decent and not frying pan-shaped like before.

We ourselves had some confusion in our minds about caps not long ago.

[Nexcom]

I don't argue, sir. There were. I remember those "Pinochetovkas"...

[Seal]

"Pinochetovka"? Thanks, I haven't heard of it before. In my circle of friends, these caps were called all sorts of things, sometimes even "cow saddles," but never "Pinochet caps."
P.S. The minus to you was not from me.

[Nexcom]

Yes, they were called by many different names...

The Russian people are angry and sharp-tongued, for they have experienced and carried on their backs a multitude of life's difficulties - countless of them... (c)

[Hiller]

Pictured are graduates of the Moscow Higher Military Command School (VOKU)—Kremlevites. They wear caps from the 43rd Central Experimental Sewing Plant (CEPK) on Frunzenskaya Embankment. The caps were ordered and paid for by the customers themselves. Boots (stoyanki) were also ordered there back in the day, when they were part of the everyday and dress uniform worn under breeches.

[Gavrilo Princip]

Thanks to North Korea for liberating the Kursk region. I wonder how much it cost the budget?

[Mouse]

It's not the uniform that makes the man... But I agree with you, a soldier should look like a polished ruble...

[Nexcom]

like 2 polished rubles
Of course, a uniform is made by the person wearing it, but if the uniform is archaic and even a little ridiculous (like the pom-pom slippers of the Greeks or the cockscombs of the Hindus)—well, it's somehow hard to accept them. I get it—it's national character, but... still...

[Mouse]

Well... That's the mentality, for them it's beautiful...

[Normann]

It's better this way than later having some colonel hang the nnnnnath billion that he allegedly stole on him.

[Gavrilo Princip]

Are you talking about Popov, where even the injured party stated in court that no damage was caused?

[Aken]

I wonder how much it cost the budget?

Defeats are usually more expensive.

[Gavrilo Princip]

The Korean budget has gained, including combat experience. As has Iran. Two powers that don't grovel before America.

[Aken]

Yes, these are the last brave men on planet Earth.

[Gavrilo Princip]

Yes, Russians, Iranians and North Koreans,

[cat Crush]

In my opinion, among the brave, they are far from the last, but among the first.

[Aken]

and from among the first.

Did you mean the only ones?

[Ed Mac]

And I wonder, did those who were supposed to defend the Kursk region and make it impregnable incur any expenses?

[tralflot1832]

Poor Japanese, did they have to study the materials of the 9th Congress of the Communist Workers' Party of Korea? Or did they simply buy satellite images of North Korea at night and compare them with images from 2022?

[kind]

[quote][The DPRK could have earned up to $13 billion from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This is the conclusion reached by the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia./quote] Why are the Japanese counting other people's money? Let them count their losses.

[Reptiloid]

Russia supplied essential goods and food

One can only be happy about such relationships and deliveries.
The DPRK is the only country that currently unconditionally supports Russia and the CIS. This friendship dates back to the Soviet era.

[cat Crush]

Peace and friendship between countries can be very beneficial. Selfless mutual assistance can be profitable.

[alexputnik17]

Who earned how much and someone from the outside calculated... So-so.

The DPRK economy is on the rise, with growth rates reaching 3,7% in 2024.

Now that's cool... They don't have our economic bloc... They first draw pessimistic figures, then cool down the economy... and we have what we have.

[Foggy Dew]

...while Japan, for its "co-operation" with the US, is only getting punched in the face...

[Oscar Essen]

A truly mutually beneficial partnership. And Kim knows without a doubt whose Crimea it is.

[AC130 Gunship]

A good chance for a half-starved country to earn some hard currency.

Especially when supplying something that has an expiration date, and then you have to spend money to destroy these shells from warehouses...

[boomerang.]

North Korea could have earned up to $13 billion from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia.

What the DPRK has done for Russia is priceless.