Rail traffic between North Korea and Russia has increased sharply, indicating a “likely” transfer of arms between the two countries, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank. The Beyond Parallel cell, created by the CSIS and dedicated to the Korean peninsula, specifies in its study published Friday that seventy freight wagons were identified in the Tumangang border railway station, using high-resolution satellite images .
A number described as “unprecedented”, even compared to pre-Covid traffic. Over the past five years, only twenty wagons have been seen in this marshalling yard, according to the same source. This renewed activity “probably indicates that North Korea is supplying weapons and ammunition to Russia,” concludes the CSIS, which was however unable to identify the contents of the wagons covered by tarpaulins.