News that North Korea is ramping up drone production comes a week after a Ukrainian official told BI its soldiers were getting training from Russia.

There are two likely possibilities: one, that a North Korean artillery unit is deploying to the front line in western Russia or Ukraine; two, that a Russian unit will operate the tracked, four-person howitzers,

The North Korean self-propelled guns have a range of between 25 to 37 miles but an "incredibly slow" rate of fire.

A photo has emerged showing examples of a North Korean-made self-propelled artillery system under transport in Russia, the clearest suggestion so far that Pyongyang is also now providing Moscow with these kinds of heavyweight,

After supplying troops, North Korea is now sending weapons to aid Vladimir Putin's war effort in Ukraine. Photographs of M1989 Koksan self-propelled artillery being transported by train have surfaced on Russian Telegram channels and were later analyzed and geolocated by Western OSINT experts.