North Korea on Friday condemned a US decision to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight Russia’s invasion, saying Washington is escalating a sinister “proxy war” aimed at destroying Moscow.
The comments by the influential sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, underscored the deepening of the country’s alignment with Russia over the war in Ukraine as it confronts the United States and its Asian allies over their own growing nuclear weapons and missile program.
North Korea has blamed the United States for the crisis in Ukraine, insisting that the West’s “hegemonic politics” forced Russia to take military action to protect its security interests.
It has also used the distraction created by the war to speed up its own weapons development, testing more than 70 missiles in 2022 alone, including potentially nuclear weapons believed to be able to target South Korea and the continental United States.
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The United States has accused North Korea of sending large supplies of artillery shells and other munitions to Russia to support its offensive in Ukraine, though North Korea has repeatedly denied the accusation.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attends a ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2, 2019. Yo Jung condemned the US decision to supply Ukraine with MI Abrams tanks to help fight Russia.
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Kim Yo Jong’s comments, carried by the Korean Central News Agency, came after US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the US will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of arguments. from Washington that they were too difficult for the Ukrainian troops. operate and maintain. The US decision followed Germany’s agreement to send 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from its own stock.
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Kim said the Biden administration was “further crossing the red line” by sending its main tanks to Ukraine and that the decision reflected a “sinister intent to achieve its hegemonic goal by further expanding proxy warfare to destroy Russia.”
“The United States is the arch-criminal who poses a serious threat and challenge to Russia’s strategic security and pushes the regional situation to the current grave phase,” he said.
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“I have no doubt that any military equipment that the United States and the West boast of will be burned to pieces in the face of the indomitable fighting spirit and might of the heroic Russian army and people,” he said, adding that North Korea will always “be in the same trench” with Russia.
North Korea is the only nation besides Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, and has also hinted at plans to send workers there to help reconstruction efforts.
