Space technology and rice: what Russia is paying North Korea for participating in the war against Ukraine

Russia helps North Korea with food.

North Korea will receive from of Russia 600-700 thousand tons of rice, advanced space technologies, and its military, which will fight alongside the Russians, a salary of 2 thousand dollars.

This was reported by South Korean intelligence, the Korea Herald writes.

According to intelligence, about 10,000 soldiers from the DPRK will join the war against Ukraine. At the same time, another 4,000 North Koreans work for Russia and receive an average of $800 per month.

The Institute for National Security Strategy, a think tank linked to Seoul's intelligence, believes that North Korea's decision to send troops to Russia a few weeks before the US presidential election is based on the belief in the victory of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, who declared that the war in Ukraine would soon end in case of his coming to power.

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