Kim is reportedly planning a trip to Russia later this month to discuss a potential weapons deal between the two countries.
"Russia is in a desperate situation right now," said retired Army Major General James A."Spider" Marks, who joined Hertling on CNN.
"Additional weapons from North Korea to Russia [is] not surprising at all," Marks said."They share the same type of caliber weapon systems. So it's an immediate plus-up. But again, this is not going to strategically alter the outcome of the fight in Ukraine." Hertling added that the weaponry in Kim's stockpile"are large caliber artillery shells, not precision weapons, not the kind that you can point and hit a target within a 10-foot or 10-meter circular error."
"There's just a lot of quantity," Hertling said."Now, quantity has a quality all of its own, don't get me wrong. But we have seen Ukrainian forces using precision weapons with great effects and they're knocking out a lot of Russian artillery pieces. It is turning the tide in the counter-firefight." "I don't think personally from a military perspective that this is going to have a great deal of significance...on the Ukrainian battle," he said.
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