South Korea has agreed to “lend” the US 500,000 155mm artillery shells, the South Korean newspaper DongA Ilbo reported on Wednesday.
The report said the US and South Korea agreed on the deal in March, but there’s been no public confirmation from either side. The reason to lend the shells instead of selling them is that Seoul wants to minimize the chance they end up in Ukraine due to South Korea’s policy of not sending arms into conflict zones.
The report said the shells would be used to fill US military stockpiles as they have dwindled due to the policy of flooding Ukraine with weapons and ammunition. According to the Pentagon, the US has pledged over 1.5 million 155mm artillery shells for Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, 2022.
The news of the artillery deal comes after classified Pentagon documents that surfaced online revealed the US was spying on South Korea. The documents show the contents of a conversation between two South Korean officials on March 1 related to selling artillery ammunition to the US.
The officials said they were concerned that shells sold to the US would wind up in Ukraine. South Korea’s government of President Yoon Suk-yeol has denied the contents of the documents and downplayed the revelations, but US officials have told the media the leaks appear to be authentic.
Both the US and NATO have been pushing South Korea to start arming Ukraine. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged Seoul to “step up” its support for Kyiv when he visited South Korea in January. ” I will say that several NATO Allies, who had as a policy never to export weapons to countries in conflict have changed that policy now,” he said.
What’s going on with the MIC? Never a lender or borrower be.
Great one, Donna!
The MIC has a new member now, Finland has a nice MIC and conscription, that should help to provide cannons plus cannon fodder, so Korea will join the selling with a nice profit too. It is all about money and senile Joe’s election next year. /s
The US can’t fight Ukraine because the military budget was too small to include artillery shells. All those payoffs to congressional district handlers cut the war budget to where the US lost every war since ww2.
couldn’t even win the war on drugs
That was a money maker and an agency creator, so it was a win for some. It was like “losing” in Afghanistan. That trillion dollars went somewhere.
oh did i say “war on drugs”? i meant to say “war on poverty”
Ah yes, 27 yrs into the Democrats’ war on the poor, we’ve been reducing poverty by slowly killing off the poor.
And they did not even win the big wars, they came in last and made huge profits.
Ha! Check out how much of the budget goes into US military spending.
DC Ghouls, P.O.S.!
That would explain their strange coloring.
Some gamer kid let this all out🤣
Stoltenberg: “I will say that several NATO Allies, who had as a policy never to export weapons to countries in conflict have changed that policy now,” he said.
One can only wonder why those countries changed their policies. Especially after reading todays story here about NATO “ally” Hungary getting sanctioned.
Finland has a nice MIC and already spends 2% of GDP on weapons, there is money to be made, that is all that counts. Our politicians are as corrupt as the Zelensky crew.
This is too funny. One, great big money making deal going on in Ukraine.
Lending ammunition?
Okaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Joe Biden only has until the 2024 election to launch nuclear world war.
It’s a no-brainer; they get new fresh ones and they’ll likely get twice as many as they give back.