North Korea denies arms coping with Russia

SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday denied offering arms to Moscow after the US stated the nuclear-armed state provided rockets and missiles to Russia’s personal navy group Wagner.

Washington earlier this month designated the Wagner group as a “transnational legal group,” citing its weapons dealings with Pyongyang in violation of UN Safety Council resolutions.

The White Home confirmed US intelligence images of Russian rail automobiles coming into North Korea, choosing up a load of infantry rockets and missiles, and returning to Russia, in accordance with nationwide safety spokesman John Kirby.

In a press release carried by the official Korean Central Information Company, a senior North Korean official rejected the accusations, warning that the US will face a “actually undesirable end result” if it persists in spreading the “self-made hearsay”.

“Making an attempt to tarnish the picture of (North Korea) by fabricating a non-existent factor is a grave provocation that may by no means be allowed and that can’t however set off its response,” stated Kwon Jong Gun, director normal of the Division of US Affairs.

He additionally referred to as it “a silly try to justify its supply of weapons to Ukraine”.

Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden promised 31 Abrams tanks, one of the crucial highly effective and complex weapons within the US military, to assist Kyiv combat off Moscow’s invasion.

The transfer drew a rebuke Friday from Kim Yo Jong, the highly effective sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, who accused Washington of “additional crossing the purple line” by sending the tanks into Ukraine.

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Together with China, Russia is without doubt one of the North’s few worldwide pals and has beforehand come to the regime’s assist.

Apart from Syria and Russia, North Korea is the one nation to recognise the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk, two Russian-backed separatist areas in jap Ukraine.

Russia, one of many 5 everlasting members of the UN Safety Council, has lengthy held the road in opposition to growing strain on nuclear-armed North Korea, even asking for aid from worldwide sanctions for humanitarian causes.

Kim Jong Un declared North Korea an “irreversible” nuclear state in September, and the nation performed sanctions-busting weapons checks practically each month final yr – together with firing its most superior intercontinental ballistic missile.