Experts: Oil in exchange for weapons and troops

These transfers violate UN sanctions, which ban countries from selling oil to North Korea, except in small quantities, in an attempt to stifle its economy to prevent it from further developing nuclear weapons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him - as US and Europe differ in their response.

And as the COP29 climate change summit wraps up -There is fury over ‘backsliding’ on fossil fuels.

(Pic: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Vladivostok in Russia; Credit: Reuters)