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Putin had to go 'cap in hand' to beg North Korea for weapons, says the UK's defense secretary
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https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-beg-north-korea-for-weapons-uk-defense-secretary-2024-1
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Russian President Vladimir Putin had to beg North Korea to supply them with weapons for the Ukraine war, the UK defense secretary said on Friday.
“The world has turned its back on Russia, forcing Putin into the humiliation of going cap in hand to North Korea to keep his illegal invasion going,” Grant Shapps wrote on X.
“This is a significant and concerning escalation in the DPRK’s support for Russia,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said at a press conference.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had declared his support for Putin’s “sacred fight” with the West when they met in September, per Reuters.
A shortage of arms has also caused Russia to turn to countries like North Korea and Iran for weapons.
In October, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence dispatch that North Korea could “become one of Russia’s most significant foreign arms suppliers, alongside Iran and Belarus.”
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