North Korea is estimated to have earned up to $14.4 billion from its troop deployment to the Russia-Ukraine war and arms exports to Russia, a report showed Monday. The figures come from a recent report on the economic impact of North Korea’s soldier dispatch and arms exports to Russia by Im Soo-ho at the Institute for National Security Strategy. “If North Korea fully collects payment for its troop deployments and arms exports, the key economic impact of sanctions, which is the reduction of hard currency earnings, is expected to be undermined,” he said in the report. READ: Russia’s communist chief […]... Keep on reading: N. Korea may have earned $14.4B from Russia-Ukraine war involvement