Economic Cooperation with North Korea
Serving Objective 27: Alignment with North Korea
20 Jul 2025. Financial Times reports that “deeper commercial co-operation between Russia and North Korea is taking root and extending beyond Pyongyang’s military support for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, offering the isolated regime an economic lifeline.”
https://www.ft.com/content/0790f0b2-753e-4de4-8343-067c10d2e85f
Covert and Political Subversion vs Germany
Serving Objective 3: Enhancing internal political instability and polarization within Western states
2 Jul 2025. German foreign ministry states that Russia employed an online outlet called Red, which styled itself as “a revolutionary platform for independent journalists,” “to sow discontent in German society.” The Red had “close links” with the Russian propaganda asset RT.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/germany-says-russia-using-media-platform-red-sow-discontent-2025-07-02/
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