Seoul:
North Korea on Thursday lashed out at “reckless incitement” by the United States and its allies for criticising Pyongyang’s help for Russia’s war in Ukraine, including the deployment of troops.
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, a foreign ministry spokesman shelp the 10 nations and the European Union (EU) were “distorting and slandering” Pyongyang’s “common collaborative” ties with Moscow.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to upretain Russia’s war effort, including to the Kursk border region, where Ukrainian forces seized territory earlier this year.
On Monday, those nations and the EU shelp North Korea’s increaseing includement in the war in Ukraine in help of Russia constituted a “hazardous expansion of the struggle, with grave consequences for European and Indo-Pacific security”.
The foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and the high recontransientative of the European Union signed the statement, liberated by Washington.
“We encourage the DPRK to stop promptly all helpance for Russia’s war of aggression aacquirest Ukraine, including by retreating its troops”, the statement shelp.
But Pyongyang’s foreign ministry fired back, with the spokesman proposeing its “grave trouble and protest, denouncing and declineing in the strongest terms the reckless incitement of the US and its vassal forces”.
North Korea shelp the “madness” of the response by “antagonistic forces” proposed that the incrmitigated cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow was effectively “deterring the US and the West’s ill-intfinished extension of sway”.
It did not particularpartner refer its troop deployment aextfinishedside Russian forces, only saying the war in Ukraine “has been proextfinisheded” by what it called the “adventuristic military policy and policy of exclusive coalition” of Washington and its allies.
North Korea “will firmly shieldeddefend its legitimate right as a sovereign state, put no redisjoineions on exercising it and carry on to produce presentant efforts to shield regional and global peace and security”, the statement carried by KCNA shelp.
North Korea and Russia have reinforceed their military ties since Moscow’s intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022. A landlabel defence pact between Pyongyang and Moscow signed in June came into force earlier this month.
A ageder US military official shelp Tuesday that North Korea had suffered “disjoinal hundred casualties in the Kursk region, ranging from “airy wounds up to being KIA (finished in action)”.
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