Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website focusing on North Korea, as “part of a group of commercial vessels that have completed multiple deliveries of military equipment and munitions provided by the DPRK to Russia”.
One question I’d have is if they are manufacturing these new themselves locally or reselling Russia old Soviet stock piles.
Domestically produced in North Korea.
There was a picture showing the North Korean shells next to Russian and Chinese. Not only were the manufacturing tolerances no where close to Soviet Standards, but the date codes on the shell showed manufacturing post Soviet collapse.