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By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com

SEOUL — China sharply increased jet fuel supplies to North Korea late last year, after sharply reducing shipments for the past two years.

Sources here said the surge in supplies has led to a sharp increase in the North’s air force exercises.

China which had exported tens of thousands of tons of jet fuel annually to North Korea provided just 600 tons of aviation kerosene in 2013 in apparent punishment for its third nuclear weapons test conducted in February 2013.

But China supplied 13,000 tons of aviation kerosene in March last year, according to a source here. The shipments came after North Korea and China exchanged high-level delegations in February and March, the source said.

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