 White House – military cooperation between Russia and North Korea increases security threat. The increased military cooperation between Russia and North Korea could drastically influence the type of security threats emanating from North Korea over the coming decade, said Pranay Vadi, the White House's senior director for arms control in an interview with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank. Moscow and Pyongyang have significantly increased their military ties since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia's newfound pariah status that followed the outbreak of full-scale war has forced the country to seek new allies and as a major producer of military hardware and similarly isolated country, North Korea has allegedly used the partnership to further its own military goals. What we're seeing between Russia and North Korea is an unprecedented level of cooperation in the military sphere, Vadi said. And I say unprecedented, very deliberately. We have never seen this before. North Korea has supplied Russia with around one million rounds of ammunition. In the short term, this cooperation has already been felt in Ukraine where Russia has allegedly used North Korean-supplied ballistic missiles in attacks on the country. It is over the next decade that the impact of the partnership could become increasingly noticeable in the Pacific region, Vadi said.