According to a newspaper report, South Korea wants to sell ammunition to the US for its military equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces. There is a confidential arms deal between Seoul and Washington under which the United States would purchase 100,000 rounds of 150-millimeter artillery ammunition from its ally, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Thursday (local time), citing US officials.
The Defense Ministry in Seoul confirmed that South Korean companies are negotiating with the US to export munitions. The purchase is intended to make up for “the shortage of 150mm ammunition in stock” in the United States. The implied amount would be enough to supply Ukrainian artillery forces with ammunition to repel Russian forces for at least a few weeks, according to the paper.
US must be “end user” according to South Korea
The ministry stressed that it would negotiate on the assumption that the US is an “end user”. Nothing has changed in South Korea’s stance on not supplying deadly weapons to Ukraine.
Experts: Russia likely to depend on arms imports
South Korea’s largely isolated neighbor North Korea recently denied statements by the US government that it was secretly sending ammunition to Russia. North Korea responded to statements by US National Security Council communications director John Kirby. He recently criticized the fact that Russia has received artillery shells from North Korea and used them in its war of aggression against Ukraine. Military experts suspect that Russia could be dependent on arms imports due to bottlenecks in the supply of the domestic arms industry.
Source: Krone
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