The war, from 2022 to 2025, lasted for four years.NATO¡¯s ammunition warehouse was empty, Ukraine¡¯s economy was crumbling, and everyone was exhausted.But just when everyone thought it was a mess, the US Wall Street Journal burst into a troubled fact: the biggest winner was North Korea, which has always been sanctioned, and no one can despise it!

Speaking of this, it's a bit like a movie script.

1. Poor buddies hold a group and kill the way to birth in a dead game

Turn back to 2023, North Korea was really miserable at that time. Sanctioned by the United Nations and the United States at all levels, there are only 1.2 billion dollars left in their pockets, and there is not enough money to import food and oil for three months. People still have to live on rationing.

On the other hand, Russia, a "fighting nation" in front of its face, has also been severely troubled by 12,000 Western sanctions. Fighting on the front line is like a "golden-eating beast". The consumption of artillery shells is like drinking water. Their own factories cannot produce them at all. Soldiers often "have to rest for two days after firing three shells."

At this juncture, North Korea's North Korean leader made a wonderful move that stunned the whole world. In June 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally flew to Pyongyang, and the two hit it off and signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. To put it bluntly, the deal is very simple: "I will send ammunition and soldiers, and you will send oil and technology." At that time, the West was still watching jokes, saying that it was "two lonely people holding together to keep warm, and it couldn't become a climate".

They had no idea that this chess was a terrible reversal of the North Korean national transport.

2. The war business is booming, and the economy and military are bumper harvests

South Korea¡¯s intelligence agencies were looking at the number of railways, and by August 2025, North Korea had sent more than 21,000 containers filled with weapons to Russia, with more than 12 million light guns shipped!

There are magazines counting the bills, selling weapons and sending troops, and North Korea's debt exceeds $ 20 billion!To know, North Korea's national GDP in 2024 is only about $ 27 billion, which is equivalent to the country's eighty percent wealth increase, and it's simply a great deal of wealth.

Russia is also true. It not only gives money, but also directly exchanges oil, wheat, and fertilizers. Now, the energy and food crisis lacking in North Korea has eased by most of a sudden. The economic data immediately looked much better, with a growth rate of 3.1% in 2024 and 3.7% in 2025, setting an eight-year high. All the machines in the factory are operating at full capacity in three shifts.

But the hardest trick of the North Korean leader was not to sell weapons, but to send soldiers directly into the game with a real knife. In front and behind, more than 30,000 skilled soldiers were sent in Russian military uniforms, and the Kursk front was a guard, a mining, and a night fight. The battle was over, and the workers were left to help the Russian mining reconstruction.

These soldiers did not go away. They operated Russian drones on the battlefield by their own hands, learned how to cooperate with the artillery, and brought the valuable real-world data back to the country in a small book. Looking back, their own weapons were upgraded: the rocket canon range from 40 kilometers to 60 kilometers, the missiles were striking accurately and sharply, and the failure rate was also greatly reduced.

The biggest egg is the technical payoff. In order to thank North Korea for "providing charcoal in the snow", Putin waved his hand and directly sent small nuclear reactors, turbines and other "pressing bottom" technical modules for building nuclear submarines to North Korea, and even helped North Korea launch reconnaissance satellites into the sky. This is equivalent to making North Korea's military technology span ten years in one step.

Third, from international abstinence to tough roles, winning national transport

In the past, North Korea had no right to speak and was often marginalized internationally, but now, it is completely different.Based on that treaty signed in 2024, Russia directly in the UN Security Council to give North Korea as a ¡°guard¡±, repeatedly vetoing new sanctions against North Korea.

The US-Japanese and Korean military exercises, the North Korean leaders personally demonstrated the town missile forces; the DPRK Deputy Foreign Minister can speak at the United Nations General Assembly after seven years, behind which there is a Russian backbone.

Looking back, the North Korean leader's big bet was not luck. he accurately grabbed Russia's most painful points, using his sufficient military and industrial capabilities, in exchange for what he did not dare to think before: huge amounts of money, top military technology, and the world-powered Russia's "security backbone".

The Russian-Ukrainian battlefield is still smoking, but North Korea has already relied on this conflict away from its homeland, realizing the boom of economic and military strength.This game of chess, really let him bet on winning the national trade, put a hand in the eyes of the world, into the amazing world of "King Bang".