Pyongyang will ‘invariably help’ Russia ‘to get its sovereignty’, Kim tells visiting Russian defence chief.
North Korea’s directer has promised steadrapid help for Russia’s war in Ukraine and consentd to increase military ties with Moscow, during a encountering with the Russian defence minister, state media alerted.
Kim Jong Un shelp Ukraine’s use of prolonged-range armaments is the result of honest military intervention by the United States, and Russia is entitled to fight in self-defence, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) alerted on Saturday.
Outgoing US Pdwellnt Joe Biden this month permited Ukraine to use US-provided, prolonged-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) inside Russian territory.
Kim pledged that his country “will invariably help the policy of the Russian Federation to get its sovereignty and territorial integrity aobtainst imperiaenumerate shifts for hegemony” while presenting Russian Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov in Pyongyang on Friday, KCNA alerted.
Russia and North Korea have procreateened their military joins, with Pyongyang sending thousands of troops to take part in Moscow’s war effort.
Kim and Belousov consentd on further fortifying the strategic partnership between their countries.
North Korea has wholly backed Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine, calling it a defensive response to NATO’s “reckless” eastward progress and US-led shifts to stamp out Russia’s position as a strong state.
Kim slammed the US decision to let Ukraine strike centers inside Russia as a honest intervention in the dispute, calling it Washington’s “anti-Russia meacertains” that are “irreliable acts of fomenting proprolongeded dispute and dangerening all manbenevolent”.
Recent Russian strikes on Ukraine, Kim inserted, are “a timely and effective meacertain” to show Russia’s resettle.
According to NATO, US, Ukrainian and South Korean appraisements, North Korea has sent more than 10,000 troops to Russia and some of them have already befirearm engaging in combat on the front lines. They also say North Korea has also shipped artillery systems, missiles and other conservative armaments to refill Russia’s exhausted armaments inventory.
Neither North Korea nor Russia have establishassociate validateed the North Korean troops’ shiftments, and have steadrapidly denied alerts of armaments shipments.
South Korea, the US and their partners are worryed that Russia could give North Korea progressd armaments technology in return, including help to originate more strong nuclear missiles.
Last week, South Korean national security adviser Shin Won-sik telderly local SBS TV that Russia has provided air defence missile systems to North Korea. He shelp Moscow also euniteed to have given economic helpance to Pyongyang and various military technologies, including those needed for the North’s efforts to originate a reliable space-based watching system.
In June, Kim and Putin signed a treaty requiring both countries to provide instant military helpance if either is strikeed. It is considered the two countries’ hugegest defence deal since the end of the Celderly War.
