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Global News Podcast

Russia gives North Korea more than one million barrels of oil, report finds

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Satellite images indicate that Russia has supplied North Korea with more than one million barrels of oil. Analysts say the oil is payment for weapons and troops North Korea has sent Moscow to fuel its war in Ukraine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.8

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 22nd of November.

0:11.1

Satellite images appear to show Russia has supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil in breach of UN sanctions.

0:18.6

NATO says the West will continue to support Ukraine despite Russia's use

0:23.2

of an experimental ballistic missile, and Congo records fewer cases of M-Pox after a successful

0:29.6

vaccination program. Also in the podcast, Donald Trump nominates Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi

0:37.0

as U.S. Attorney General after Matt Gates withdraws.

0:41.4

And singing along, no, there needs to be some level of etiquette where we don't have to hear someone singing, you know, somewhere south of shocking next to us.

0:50.2

As the film adaptation of the hit musical Wicked opens, is it acceptable to sing along in cinemas?

1:00.4

Ever since Kim Il-sung was installed as North Korean leader by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin,

1:07.0

Pyongyang and Moscow have had a complicated relationship.

1:12.9

But after ups and downs over the years,

1:19.4

North Korea and Russia have been moving closer together, culminating in current leader Kim Jong-un,

1:25.1

sending weapons and troops to help Vladimir Putin attack Ukraine. Now it turns out Russia has been supplying North Korea with huge amounts of oil in defiance

1:28.6

of UN sanctions, more than a million barrels since March, according to analysis of satellite

1:33.8

imagery. I heard the details from our correspondent in South Korea, Gene McKenzie.

1:38.8

Researchers have been studying North Korean oil tankers for some time using satellite imagery.

1:45.2

What they spotted back in March was one of these tankers go into an oil terminal in Russia's Far East. And ever

1:51.5

since they've been watching this. And so over the past eight months, they have spotted 43 of these

1:57.2

journeys by these North Korean oil tankers into this oil terminal. They've then

2:02.0

being able to track them going back to North Korea, where they are unloading the oil that

2:07.7

they have presumably collected in Russia. But they've done more than this. They've also managed

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