Half a world away from the front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine there’s a stockpile of probably more than a million artillery shells on the Korean peninsula—a hoard that’s drawing attention as South Korea’s leader heads to Washington. Know more:
Half a world away from the front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine there’s a stockpile of probably more than a million artillery shells on the Korean peninsula—a hoard that’s drawing attention as South Korea’s leader heads to Washington.
One factor weighing on Yoon will be whether a decision by Seoul to move closer to Kyiv in the conflict would be met by Russian President Vladimir Putin increasing military cooperation with North Korea, said Soo Kim, a former Korea analyst at the US Central Intelligence Agency, who now works at US-based management consulting firm LMI.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long sought weapons from South Korea and even made a personal appeal for the aid when he spoke to the South Korean parliament in April last year. “You can bet the stocks of both North and South easily exceed a million shells of differing types,” said Joost Oliemans, a weapons expert who co-authored the book The Armed Forces of North Korea. “Both operate many thousands of artillery pieces, which, even without being restocked, would necessitate hundreds of thousands of shells,” he said.
Oliemans said the notion of the US purchasing directly, loaning or acquiring the shells through Poland is “probably the most direct way South Korea could influence Ukraine’s long-awaited spring offensive and the war in the near term, barring a sudden willingness to deliver armaments such as advanced air defenses.”
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