Her government North Korea denied the US claim that it supplies Russia with weapons and ammunition. Earlier, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, had presented US intelligence footage it said showed Russian trains returning from the Asian country loaded with military equipmentincluding rockets for the private military company Wagner.
At the same time, Washington described Wagner as a “criminal organization”, while announcing that it had sent the material it has to the UN, as part of the sanctions against Pyongyang.
The North Korean government spokesman spoke of a “stupid attempt to justify” the future deployment of heavy weapons to Ukraine by the US government, which promised on Thursday 31 Abrams tanks in Kyiv.
Kwong Jong Gun, director-general of the US affairs department, told state news agency KCNA of the “completely fabricated rumor” and warned Washington that it would face “totally undesirable consequences” for it if it continued to spread it.
“Trying to tarnish the image” of North Korea “by building something that doesn’t exist is a serious challenge that can never be allowed and may cause a backlash,” he continued.
Referring to the upcoming delivery of American tanks to the Ukrainian army, he spoke of an “immoral crime” aimed at “keeping the international situation unstable.”
Already yesterday Friday, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, an influential personality in North Korea, criticized the USA for their new promises to send more military equipment to Ukraine, judging that they not only violated, but “are moving even further away from the red line”.
THE Russiaalong with China, are among Pyongyang’s few allies at the international level.
Besides Syria and Russia, North Korea is the only other country to recognize the independence of the pro-Russian Lugansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine.
Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has long opposed tightening international sanctions against North Korea, suggesting instead that they be eased on humanitarian grounds.
Kim Jong Un announced in 2022 that his country intends to acquire the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world, while in September he described North Korea’s nuclear status as “irreversible”.
Seoul and Washington have been saying since last year that Pyongyang plans to conduct another nuclear weapon test, which would be its seventh in its history and first since 2017.
Source: News Beast
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