North Korea-Russia rail traffic surges, suggesting arms supply – think tank

Rail traffic along the North Korea-Russia border spiked this week to the highest in years, suggesting arms supply by Pyongyang to Moscow after their leaders discussed deeper military cooperation, a U.S. think tank said on Friday. Satellite imagery showed an "unprecedented" 73 or so freight cars at Tumangang Rail Station in the North Korean border city of Rason, the Beyond Parallel Project of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a week-long summit in Russia's Far East last month, discussing military matters, the war in Ukraine and deepening military and economic cooperation.