Tim Martin
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North Korea got a break, if you will, with Russia's invasion to Ukraine.
What did North Korea do?
They first began offering munitions, supplying munitions en masse to Russia's war machine,
We see how much military support Russia gets from North Korea.
North Korea is providing significant munitions to Russia and other weapons.
And the two countries signed a mutual defense pact.
And that laid the legal groundwork for what took the North Korea-Russia relationship to a whole new level.
And that was the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops to the Russian front lines to fight
And this provided Putin and Russia something it really needed, bodies and soldiers.
And North Koreans fought and died for this war with Ukraine on Russia's behalf.
So this injected billions of dollars into the regime.
And to give you some perspective, North Korea's GDP is estimated to be about $27 billion annually.
They've accrued, according to some estimates, more than $10 billion just in the past two and a half years or so.
It's a significant amount of money or assets flowing into North Korea.
So the Russia part is very important.
There are two other pieces to this.
China is North Korea's main benefactor and trading partner.
It warehouses many of Kim Jong-un's cyber warriors who...