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yeah, so that's gonna be really interesting, briana, because that's right about 11,000 containers worth of munitions have but generally reached ukraine from north korea. >> so what else could there be? there could be personnel in the extreme case, you could actually have north korean troops potentially help the russians either there in a backfill capacity where they support them from the back and not on the front lines. but the other part of it could be that they would provide logistical support right? that they could provide perhaps equipment from their train service those are the kinds of things that they might do if russian planes break, for example, even though the north koreans have very limited aircraft perhaps they would use one or two north korean aircraft all of those things are possible. we don't know, of course the text of this, but that's the kind of thing. then you would expect them to do. but the other thing that they i think we'll do is provide labor support for the russian labour force. there's a civilian labor shortage in russia and now that russia is on a war footing, on a war economy footing there will be north korean workers, even more of them working in russian armaments factories and in other areas of the russian economy that directly support the war effort. >> that's really interesting there are entering into this strategic partnership where if you're attacked, i'm going to come to your aid. how do you see that playing out well, there's one historical precedent that would be the korean war. >> so the russians supplied the careens, the soviets at that time supplied the north korea the ends with a lot of manpower they used fighter pilots, russian fighter pilots, to actually fly north korean jets during the korean war. so there would be the possibility of that happening in reverse where the north koreans come in and do something like that. if there were to be a shortage of russian pilots, i don't think that that will happen, but that's an extreme scenario that's possible the other thing of course, if something were to happen on the korean peninsula, then you could see the russians aiding in that way once again. and so then it would be the history repeating itself, or at least rhyming. >> there's a new report from the stockholm international peace research institute that the nine nuclear states, which of course includes russia, north korea, and the us, they're continuing to increase their nuclear arsenals right now, is these geopolitical tensions are growing. how do you see this moment and the threat here? >> well, it's a huge threat because the non-proliferation regime within the whole nuclear concept that has really governed the world since the fall of the berlin wall all of that has, has an essence stop. and even before the fall of the berlin wall, you hand relationships the us head with the soviet union and they made some sense, they resulted in the reduction of arms all the start talks, for example, is strategic arms reduction talks were extremely important in doing that, of course, they didn't eliminate nuclear weapons, obviously. but the proliferation regime, which has had its problems is now i would say completely dead at this point, and we are watching live pictures here of putin having a rule arrived hi there in high noise, which is the next stop following north korea will continue to look at his visit. obviously, it's very important at this moment in time. as we're watching developments in the ukraine war, cedric always great to get your insights. thank you so much. good briana for us we're also learning today that russia has sentenced an american soldier to nearly four years in a penal colony for theft and threatening murder you have staff sergeant gordon black was arrested last month on accusations of assaulting and stealing a bit more than $100 from a woman believed to be his girlfriend russian state media reports that black partially admitted to the theft, but not to the charges of threatening to kill her. >> cnn national security correspondent, kylie atwood is following the latest from the state department. so kindly, what are us official saying about this case? >> well, less than there were us embassy officials who were present at his sentencing curing today. that's according to a state department spokesperson. but we should know that the state department, the us government, has not deemed gordon black this us soldier to be wrongfully detained. and what that means is effectively that they are not fighting this sentence at this time. they're not proactively working at this time to make sure that russia immediately releases him. will watch and see, of course, where that goes. of course, they continue to very closely look at the case of all americans who are detained. and then of course, sentence as gordon black has now been to prison time in russia, we should also note that a state department spokesperson said this when we asked him about the case that as a general practice, we do not share information with the media about private us citizens absent. third, the written consent. we reiterate our strong warnings about the danger posed to us citizens inside the russian federation. us citizens residing or traveling and russia should depart immediately as stated in our travel advisory for russia. now, speaking today, as you said, in that courtroom, according to to russian state media reports, gordon black denied that he had actually threatened death on the woman that he was dating, who he traveled to russia to see. he did say that he took some money out of her purse, but the next day he paid her back. we'll watch and see. of course, where this goes. but the backdrop being that there are two americans who are wrongfully detained in russia. of course, paul whelan and evan gershkovich last month when this us soldier was arrested, paul whelan spoke with our colleague jennifer hansler and while he was a bit more optimistic than he has been in the past about us efforts to secure his release. he also said that he was concerned about this case, this arrest of this us soldier potentially complicating those efforts kelly, i would live for us from the state department. >> thank you so much. >> coming up enormous and devastating. that's how new mexico's governors describing too fast-moving wildfires that are forcing thousands of people from their homes good rain coming up in the forecast potentially bring some relief plus bracing for a monumental ruling. what happens if the supreme court's sides with hundreds of jazz? 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