More than a year and a half into a war that has gone badly wrong for Russia, Moscow may well need to replenish its munitions stocks. It may well see a deal with Pyongyang as a way of helping to achieve that. But that doesn’t mean that, without North Korea’s help, Russia’s war machine is about to grind to a halt.
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