North Korean factories are producing winter uniforms, underwear and footwear for Russian soldiers in Ukraine using Russian raw materials to earn hard currency for Pyongyang – in violation of U.N. sanctions aimed at choking off revenues for Kim Jong Un's illicit arms programs. Kim's grandfather was the Soviet Union's hand-picked founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea nearly 75 years ago, and global isolation in modern times has brought the regimes of Kim and Valdimir Putin closer together.
