Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions ⠀

“For the past seven years, Pyongyang has had to pay a high premium for the oil products it needs, as it relied on a complex and expensive network of criminal brokers and mid-sea ship-to-ship transfers,” said Go.

“But now, it appears it has secured a steady supply of oil either at a heavy discount or as direct payment for the munitions it is supplying to Moscow,” he added. “That is going to free up resources for North Korea’s armed forces and its nuclear weapons programme.”

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    • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
      216·
      8 months ago

      Oh, but we have a pathological need to smash people we don’t like! Of course we don’t want the free market because then the free market doesn’t need us.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      65·
      8 months ago

      Okay I hate US hypocrisy as much as the next person but this is North Korea. Helping that regime survive is basically a crime against humanity.

      • Salph@infosec.pub
        2611·
        8 months ago

        You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of? Then proceeded to sanction to hell because it dared to not be capitalist and allow the US’s capitalist class to extract from it?

        Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that’s currently committing a genocide in Palestine right now — survives is a crime against humanity. What has the DPRK done other than trying to survive under the brutal US sanctions that does nothing but harm its working class population?

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          46·
          8 months ago

          You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of?

          Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that’s currently committing a genocide in Palestine — survives is a crime against humanity.

          Both of these things can be true.

          What has the DPRK done other than trying to survive under the brutal US sanctions that does nothing but harm its working class population?

          Be a dictatorship that makes the Nazis blush? We all know that’s not why the US is sanctioning them but the NK regime has a literal god-king as its head of state. I know tankies like to defend everyone that’s opposed to the US but NK is just too much. And please don’t say nonsense like “That’s what they want you to think” or “that’s Western propaganda” because this kind of propaganda can’t survive in the modern day (case in point: Palestine).

          • Salph@infosec.pub
            173·
            8 months ago

            So are you concerned about the people in the DPRK then? You realize sanctions do nothing but harm those people right?

            Or do you think the supposed dictators of the country would take the damage from the sanctions instead of pushing it onto the working class population?

            • Crikeste@lemm.ee
              131·
              8 months ago

              They do realize sanctions do nothing but harm.

              That’s their cruel point.

        • Holyginz@lemmy.world
          311·
          8 months ago

          Ok, I agree the us is fucked up in many ways just like the next person. But NK doesn’t need any help in harming its working class.

          • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
            81·
            8 months ago

            Yet the US is doing a great job at that with its sanctions that do nothing but harm that working class.