The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is four years, from 2022 to 2025, now the western media is finally unstoppable, telling a hard-hearted fact – this war did not let anyone afford how cheap, in turn let the previously sanctioned North Korea, became the biggest winner! especially recently there is a heavy news, Russian "No. 2 person" Medvedev went to North Korea, the two people talked about what is called a hot, good relationship to people, this is estimated to be Trump most wanted to see.
Let's talk about how hard it was before North Korea. At that time in 2023, the United Nations and the United States imposed layers of sanctions, and North Korea only had US $1.2 billion in foreign exchange reserves left, which could not even sustain three months of imports. Oil and food had to be rationed all the year round, and ordinary people lived. It's not easy, and the country's development is stuck. Looking at Russia again, it's not much better here. Europe imposed 12,000 sanctions at once, and military production capacity simply cannot keep up with front-line consumption. To what extent is there a shortage of artillery shells? Front-line soldiers have to rest for two days after three rounds, and they are extremely anxious.
Just when these two brothers and brothers were almost at their end, the leader of North Korea made a big move. In June 2024, Putin personally went to Pyongyang with the Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The two hit it off and set a cooperation path of "ammunition for resources and troops for technology"-North Korea sent artillery shells and soldiers to Russia to help In the war, Russia exported oil and taught military technology to North Korea. At that time, the West laughed at it, saying that "it's useless for two isolated countries to hold a group." As a result, now their faces are swollen, and this cooperation directly turned North Korea over.
North Korea's "war business" is really big enough. South Korean intelligence agencies have been watching. As of August 2025, North Korea has sent 21,000 arms containers to Russia by railway, which are full of 122mm artillery shells and KN-23 ballistic missiles. The artillery shells alone exceed 12 million rounds. "Military Watch" magazine calculated an account. This arms sale, plus the labor cost of sending 30,000 soldiers to the war, made North Korea a full profit of more than 20 billion dollars! You must know that North Korea's annual GDP in 2024 will only be US $27 billion. This 20 billion is equivalent to nearly 80% of the country's wealth increase, which is simply a "windfall from heaven."
And Russia not only gave money, but also directly borrowed with resources. Tanks continuously unloading crude oil to North Korea's Rothschild port, filled with wheat and fertilizer trains go north every day, North Korea's energy and food crisis at once eased. Economic data also followed, in 2024 North Korea's economic growth rate jumped to 3.1%, in 2025 increased to 3.7%, recorded eight-year high, manufacturing growth 7%, heavy industry jumped directly 8.8%. South Korean media had to admit: "Western sanctions have been set, North Korea has saved the economy by war dividends."
The military industry has also been fully activated. Previously, more than 200 North Korean military factories were "three days to fish, two days to sunnet", intermittent work, now all changed into three batches, 24 hours without stopping. Old machinery all changed into Russian numerical control equipment, cannon production capacity increased from hundreds of thousands per month to millions. The port of Rothschild's disguised cargo boxes were shipped day and night, 2,8 thousand containers were sent to the frontline through Russian port of Vladivostok, and the hard life supported the Russian army's daily consumption of thousands of ammunition.
The hardest step of the North Korean leader was to send 30,000 skilled soldiers directly to the battlefield. These soldiers came from the 11th Army "Tempestry Corps", dressed in Russian military uniforms fighting on the Kursk front, guarding positions, mining, infiltrating night battles, and doing anything. Later Ukrainian soldiers seized the North Korean code manual, and the West was surprised that North Korea was already deeply involved.
The real battle is the best training field. These soldiers followed the Russian military drones and cannons on the battlefield and joined forces to bring the battlefield data back to Pyongyang in notebooks. Back and forth, North Korea's weapons were directly "upgraded": the original 240 mm rocket canon with a range of 40 kilometers, changed to 60 kilometers and added satellite positioning; the KN-23 missile used Russian propulsion technology, precision shrunk from several hundred meters to 150 meters, failure rate dropped to less than 5% and was much better used than before.
More importantly, Russia also gave North Korea the technology of "pressing the bottom of the box". In the first half of 2025, Russia sent 2 to 3 nuclear submarine modules to North Korea, which contained core treasures such as nuclear reactors and turbines. You know, small nuclear reactors have been North Korea's technological dead hole for many years. With this, North Korea's research and development of strategic nuclear submarines will save at least ten years of detours. In addition, Russia also helped North Korea send reconnaissance satellites into the sky, and North Korea's intelligence capabilities were immediately raised.
South Korea's intelligence department looked straight: "The former North Korean army was a static defense, now it became a maneuverable force with real-war experience, even electronic warfare and drone operation are fun!"In September 2025, the North Korean leader went to inspect the newly built missile plant, in which the KN-24 missile, with a range of 400 kilometers, can carry 500 kilograms of explosives, performance quickly catch up with the Russian Iskander-M.
Previously, North Korea has always been marginalized internationally, but now it has become an inseparable "key ally" of Russia. in the "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty" signed by Russia in 2024 it is written clearly: "one side is attacked, the other side provides support", is equivalent to adding a layer of "security shield" to North Korea.
Now the West has discovered that it has completely miscalculated. Originally, they wanted to trap North Korea by sanctions, but they turned sanctions into "business opportunities" through the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal has no choice but to admit that more than 40% of the Russian army's ammunition now comes from North Korea, and it can't be stopped even if it wants to. North Korea uses camouflaged cargo containers to ship by sea and runs special railway trains at night, which Western intelligence ships simply can't keep an eye on.
In September 2025, North Korean leaders sent another 25,000 workers to the Russian drone factory to work, both to earn foreign exchange and learn technology. Russia's oil and wheat, not only solved the urge, but also allowed North Korea to undertake the "20×10" regional development plan, build factories, repair irrigation system, increase its production capacity.
The last thing Trump wants to see is that North Korea is getting stronger step by step and getting closer and closer to Russia and China. Nowadays, high-level officials of China, Russia and the DPRK often get together, and the United States, Japan and South Korea form a military alliance. China, Russia and the DPRK form a fulcrum of confrontation, and the pattern of Northeast Asia has been rewritten. The western media sourly said that North Korea was a "war speculator", but they had to admit that the North Korean leader turned a bad hand into a "king bomb". The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is still a tug-of-war, but North Korea has become stronger and stronger with this battle. This risky move, and people have really won the national destiny!