By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 3 hours ago, updated 29 minutes ago
Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo released December 31, 2022 by North Korea News Agency. On Sunday, a senior member of the North Korean government rejected the US allegations. KCNA/Portal
The White House Security Council spokesman released footage allegedly showing wagons delivering North Korean weapons to Russia, including rockets for Wagner.
North Korea on Sunday refused arms supplies to Moscow after Washington accused it of supplying rockets and missiles to the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, active in Ukraine.
Last week, White House Security Council spokesman John Kirby released US intelligence footage showing suspected Russian train cars returning from North Korea loaded with military equipment, including rockets for Wagner. The USA described Wagner as a “criminal organization” and declared that it would transfer these recordings to the UN as part of the sanctions against Pyongyang.
“A Serious Provocation”
On Sunday, a senior North Korean government official condemned “a stupid attempt” to justify future arms sales by Washington to Ukraine, which Kyiv promised 31 Abrams tanks on Thursday. Quoted by the official KCNA news agency, North Korean American Affairs Director-General Kwon Jong Gun dismissed this “trumpeting rumor” and warned the United States that if it spreads further, it will expose itself to a “really undesirable outcome”. would. “Trying to tarnish (North Korea’s) image by making something that doesn’t exist is a serious provocation that can never be allowed and can only provoke a reaction,” he added.
On Friday, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, also criticized US pledges to send arms to Ukraine and accused them of “crossing the border even further.” Red line”. Russia, which is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, has long opposed tougher international sanctions on North Korea, even calling for them to be relaxed on humanitarian grounds.
Kim Jong Un declared in 2022 that he wanted his country to have the world’s most powerful nuclear power plant, calling the North’s nuclear power status “irreversible” in September.
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