Russia has been supplying oil to North Korea since March 2024, and this information has been collected by satellite images. The estimated amount that has been supplied to North Korea is more than a million barrels of oil since it started, according to this image analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.
According to the rumors that have been said about this oil, this oil has been a source of payment by Russia to North Korea for the weapons and the troops that have been sent to Moscow to fuel its war in Ukraine, These transfers violate UN sanctions that prohibit nations from supplying oil to North Korea, even in modest amounts, to suppress its economy and stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Satellite photographs show more than a dozen different North Korean oil tankers landing at an oil facility in Russia's Far East 43 times in the last eight months. Further images of the ships at sea appear to show the tankers arriving empty and departing almost full. North Korea is the only country in the world that cannot purchase oil on the open market. On March 7, 2024, seven months after it was initially revealed that Pyongyang had delivered weapons to Moscow, the Open Source Center published a new report detailing the first oil delivery.
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